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Dictionary entry overview: What does urus mean?

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

1. large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle

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

Dictionary entry details

• URUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos primigenius; urus; aurochs

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

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

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

Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

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