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Ox

/ˈɒks/

An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).

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noun
  1. 1

    An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).

  2. 2

    Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.

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wild oxnoun(zoology) Any of several mammals including the aurochs, kouprey, banteng, gaur or reem.

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wild oxnoun(zoology) Any of several mammals including the aurochs, kouprey, banteng, gaur or reem.
musknounA greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
bullnounAn adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
steerverb(intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
bullocknounA castrated bull; an ox.
cownoun(strictly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
cattlenounDomesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.
bovinenoun(not comparable) Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle.
bosnoun(sports) Abbreviation of Boston. [A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).]
neatnounClean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
kinenoun(physics) The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.
beevenoun(archaic) A cow, a bovine
heifernounA young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
calfnounA young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
stotnoun(Scotland, Northern England) A bounce or rebound.
taurinenoun(organic chemistry, biochemistry) An amino-sulfonic acid, NH₂CH₂CH₂SO₃H, that has regulatory functions in mammals.
zebunounA domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos taurus indicus).
aurochsnounAn extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
yearlingnounAn animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
urusnounThe aurochs.

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