Definition of Bibos gaurus

1. Noun. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.

Exact synonyms: Gaur
Group relationships: Bibos, Genus Bibos
Generic synonyms: Asian Wild Ox

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bibos Gaurus

Bible-worship
Bible Belt
Bible basher
Bible bashers
Bible thumper
Bible thumpers
Bibles
Biblezine
Biblezines
Biblical
Biblical Aramaic
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Latin
Bibos
Bibos frontalis
Bibos gaurus
Bichat
Bichat's canal
Bichat's fat-pad
Bichat's fissure
Bichat's foramen
Bichat's fossa
Bichat's ligament
Bichat's membrane
Bichat's protuberance
Bichat's tunic
Bichon Frisé
Bichons Frisés
Bickel
Bickel's ring

Literary usage of Bibos gaurus

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

1. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"... very broad behind, and with a very high occipital crest; nose rapidly tapering from the orbits; nasal bones broad. bibos gaurus, Gray, Cat. ..."

2. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1899)
"A fine head of the Indian Wild Ox (bibos gaurus), presented by Mr. Sims Reeve, is a very handsome object; and to Mr. Russell J. Colman the Museum is ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A large wild ox of India, bibos gaurus, the wild stock of the domesticated gay- al, and related to the zebu, it inhabits the jungles of Assam, of Cuttack in ..."

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