musk
A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
Other meanings
A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
A kind of
- secretion
Word history
From Sanskrit "मुष्क" (testicle).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “musk” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.