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musk
English
Etymology
From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian ???? (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit ????? (mu?ka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of ???? (m??, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
- Homophone: MuSK
Noun
musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)
- A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
- A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
- The odour of musk.
- The musk deer (genus Moschus).
- The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
- A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
- A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
- (slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.
- I was so excited I could smell my own musk.
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Verb
musk (third-person singular simple present musks, present participle musking, simple past and past participle musked)
- (transitive) To perfume with musk.
Anagrams
- skum
Middle English
Noun
musk
- Alternative form of muske
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exaltolide
English
Noun
exaltolide (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) The macrocyclic lactone, pentadecalactone, having fifteen carbon atoms; it has a musky scent, similar to exaltone
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