📖 Definitions of "Ox"
noun
- 1
An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).
- 2
Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
🔄 Synonyms of "Ox"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wild oxnoun | (zoology) Any of several mammals including the aurochs, kouprey, banteng, gaur or reem. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ox"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wild oxnoun | (zoology) Any of several mammals including the aurochs, kouprey, banteng, gaur or reem. |
| musknoun | A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. |
| bullnoun | An 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). |
| bullocknoun | A castrated bull; an ox. |
| cownoun | (strictly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved. |
| cattlenoun | Domesticated 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).] |
| neatnoun | Clean, 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 |
| heifernoun | A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved. |
| calfnoun | A 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. |
| zebunoun | A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos taurus indicus). |
| aurochsnoun | An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle. |
| yearlingnoun | An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old). |
| urusnoun | The aurochs. |
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