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Definition of Genus bos
1. Noun. Wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Bovine, Ox, Wild Ox, Bos Taurus, Cattle, Cows, Kine, Oxen, Ox, Bos Indicus, Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin, Zebu, Aurochs, Bos Primigenius, Urus, Bos Grunniens, Yak, Banteng, Banting, Bos Banteng, Tsine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bos
Literary usage of Genus bos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Course in Biology by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Walter Moore Coleman (1908)
"The sacred cow of India (Bos indicus) is so like the cow and buffalo as also to
belong in the genus Bos. Why is not the camel, which, like Bos bison, ..."
2. Catalogue and Hand-book of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum by Indian Museum, John Anderson (1883)
"The right ramus of the lower jaw of an animal belonging to the genus Bos, but
imperfect. Mr. 27.—The right metacarpal of an animal belonging to the genus ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"... on a fragment of a fossil skull of the genus Bos, from the banks of the
Mississippi, he shews that it, in all probability, is part of an extinct species ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1828)
"... on a fragment of a fossil skull of the genus Bos, from the banks of the
Mississippi, he shews that it, in all probability, is part of an extinct species ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"By Professor Sedgwick: Exhibition of a pair of large fossil horns, of some species
of the genus Bos, found near Walton in Essex. By Will. Whewell, MA (Trin. ..."
6. History of Polled Aberdeen Or Angus Cattle: Giving an Account of the Origin by James Macdonald, James Sinclair (1882)
"... upon as the conglomerate produce of two or more distinctly different species
of the genus Bos, or as the variegated offshoots of one great parent stem. ..."
7. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1828)
"That there formerly existed within the actual limits of the United States, four,
and probably five species of the genus Bos. Of these only one is at the ..."
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