Ox

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos, especially B. taurus, used chiefly as a draft animal.
  • n. A bovine mammal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially an adult castrated male of the domestic species.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The adult male of the domestic Bos taurus, known in the natural state as a bull, whose female is a cow, and whose young is a calf; in a wider sense, an animal of the family Bovidæ and subfamily Bovinæ or Ovibovinæ; a bovine.
  • n. In a restricted sense, the castrated male of Bos taurus, at least 4 years old and full-grown or nearly so. (See steer.) Such animals are most used as draft-animals and for beef.
  • n. Same as ox-coin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos
  • n. an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bos taurus    oxen    cattle    cows    kine   
    Variant
    oxen   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beef    bullock    stot    steer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cox    Fox    Foxx    Jocks    Knox    Ochs    Sachs    Sox    ballcocks    blocks   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    buffalo    goat    mule    cattle    bull    elephant    beast    lamb    donkey    hog