Usually means: Aromatic substance from animal glands.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. musk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. musk: Merriam-Webster
  3. musk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. musk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. musk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. musk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Musk, musk: Wordnik
  8. musk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Musk, musk: Wiktionary
  10. musk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. musk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. musk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Musk, musk: Dictionary.com
  14. musk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. musk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Musk (disambiguation), Musk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Musk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. musk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. musk: Rhymezone
  20. Musk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. musk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. musk: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. musk: FreeDictionary.org
  24. musk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. musk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. musk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MuSK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Musk: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. musk: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
noun:  A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
noun:  A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
noun:  The odour of musk.
noun:  A musk deer (genus Moschus).
noun:  A muskflower (Erythranthe moschata).
noun:  A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
noun:  A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
noun:  (slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.
verb:  (transitive) To perfume with musk.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Elon Musk (b. 1971), entrepreneur and business magnate.
noun:  (biochemistry) Abbreviation of muscle-specific kinaze.

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