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Definition of Aurochs

1. Noun. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.

2. Noun. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle.

Definition of Aurochs

1. n. The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Cæsar, with which it has often been confused.

Definition of Aurochs

1. Noun. An extinct European mammal, ''Bos primigenius'', the ancestor of domestic cattle. ¹

2. Noun. (zoology) The European bison (''Bison bonasus'', or ''Europæus''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aurochs

1. an extinct European ox [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Aurochs

1. The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused. Origin: G. Auerochs, OHG. Rohso; r (cf. AS. R) + ohso ox, G. Ochs. Cf. Owre, Ox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aurochs

auriscope auriscopes auriscopic auriscopy aurist aurists aurited aurivilliusite aurivorous auro-

aurocephalous auroch aurochloride aurochlorides aurochromoderma aurochs (current term) aurochsen aurochses aurocyanide aurocyanides

aurodox auromercaptoacetanilid aurone auropalpebral reflex aurophilic aurora aurora-colored aurora australis aurora austrealis aurora borealis

Literary usage of Aurochs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Science (1864)
"''The third is a kind of them which are called aurochs («rt). These are of a size little less than elephants ; in appearance, colour, and form they are ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In this work appear woodcuts—rude but characteristic and unmistakable—of two distinct types of Europe» wild cattle; one the aurochs, or ur, and the other ..."

3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1849)
"The male aurochs is upwards of six feet in height at the shoulders, and is a most formidable animal; so great is its strength that, according to Dr. ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"makes it a native of Mauritania, and the aurochs, and of the forest which it inhabits, is couples it with the dorcas. According to Oppian, given in the ..."

5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by William Somerville Orr (1855)
"Anciently the aurochs, also called the Urus and European Bison, abounded in all those parts of Europe which were covered with forests ; but it is now almost ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1844)
"Urm priscus, Fossil aurochs. The former existence of a gigantic species of this subgenus is unequivocally established by fossil remains of the cranium and ..."

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