Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of wild bull described by Cæsar; the mountain-bull, which ran wild in Gaul at the period of the Roman invasion, but has long been extinct.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of Bovidæ, including the aurochs and extinct bisons: therefore equivalent to Bison as now employed.
- noun A kind of fossil ox from Eschscholtz Bay, Alaska.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (
Bos urus orBos primigenius ) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Cæsar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also,ur ,ure , andtur .
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- noun The
aurochs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_ The urus, which is the representative of the wild cattle of this period, is the ancestor of our long-horned cattle, and should be distinguished from the short-horned cattle that appear in western Europe in the prehistoric period in a domesticated state.
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It states that the 'urus' was the only indigenous wild ox in this country, and the source of all our domesticated breeds as well as of the few wild ones that remain, such as the Chillingham breed, which is small, white, with the inside of the ear red, and a brownish muzzle.
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chained_bear commented on the word urus
Usage/citation on zebu.
August 25, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word urus
A.k.a. aurochs.
October 17, 2009