BOS

Pronunciation (US):

• BOS (noun)
  The noun BOS has 1 sense:

1. wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini

  Familiarity information: BOS used as a noun is very rare.

• BOS (noun)

Meaning:

Wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos; genus Bos

Hypernyms ("Bos" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Bos"):

Bos grunniens; yak (large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated)

aurochs; Bos primigenius; urus (large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle)

zebu (domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia)

Bos indicus; Brahma; Brahman; Brahmin (any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding)

ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

ox; wild ox (any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos)

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

banteng; banting; Bos banteng; tsine (wild ox of the Malay Archipelago)

Holonyms ("Bos" is a member of...):

Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)