Aurochs Definition

ourŏks, ôrŏks
noun
A wild ox (Bos primigenius) of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia that became extinct in the 17th century and is believed to be the ancestor of domestic cattle.
American Heritage
An extinct, shaggy, long-horned wild ox of Eurasia: it is the ancestor of modern domestic cattle.
Webster's New World
An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
Wiktionary
(zoology) The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus).
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Noun

Singular:
aurochs
Plural:
aurochsen, aurochses

Origin of Aurochs

  • From German Aurochs, an early variant of Auerochse, from Middle High German ūrochse "aurochs" from Old High German ūrohso "aurochs", a compound consisting of ūro "aurochs" (from Proto-Germanic *ūraz, *ūrô (“aurochs”)) + ohso "ox". Akin to Old English ūr "aurochs", Old Norse úrr (“aurochs”), Middle Low German ūrosse "aurochs", Old English oxa "ox". More at ox.

    From Wiktionary

  • Obsolete German variant of German Auerochs from Middle High German ūrohse from Old High German ūrohso ūro aurochs ohso ox uks-en- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aurochs Sentence Examples

  • From the aurochs (zimbru), in pursuit of which Dragosh first arrived on the banks of the Moldova, is derived the ox-head of the Moldavian national arms, and from his favourite hound who perished in the waters the name of the river.

  • The aurochs was a black animal, with a lighter dorsal streak, and horns directed upwards in the shape of a pitchfork, black at their tips, but otherwise whitish.

  • The aurochs (Bos urns) appears to exist still in the forests of the western Caucasus.

  • According to the German Freiherr von Herberstein (1486-1566), in his Moscovia, of which an Italian translation was published at Venice in 1550, the aurochs survived in Poland (and probably also in Hungary) during the latter middle ages.

  • In this work appear woodcuts - rude but characteristic and unmistakable - of two distinct types of European wild cattle; one the aurochs, or ur, and the other the bison.

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