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Meaning of "aurochs" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AUROCHS

From German, from Old High German ūrohso, from ūro bison + ohsoox.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF AUROCHS

ˈɔːrɒks


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUROCHS

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Aurochs is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AUROCHS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Aurochs

The aurochs, also urus, ure, the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa. The species survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627. During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to zebu cattle; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle. Other species of wild bovines were also domesticated, namely the wild water buffalo, gaur, and banteng. In modern cattle, numerous breeds share characteristics of the aurochs, such as a dark colour in the bulls, with a light eel stripe along the back with the cows being lighter, or a typical aurochs-like horn shape.

Definition of aurochs in the English dictionary

The definition of aurochs in the dictionary is a recently extinct member of the cattle tribe, Bos primigenius, that inhabited forests in N Africa, Europe, and SW Asia. It had long horns and is thought to be one of the ancestors of modern cattle Also called: urus.

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUROCHS

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WORDS THAT END LIKE AUROCHS

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Synonyms and antonyms of aurochs in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «aurochs» into 25 languages

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The translations of aurochs from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «aurochs» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

野牛
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

uros
570 millions of speakers
en

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aurochs
510 millions of speakers
hi

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aurochs
380 millions of speakers
ar

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الأرخص
280 millions of speakers
ru

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зубр
278 millions of speakers
pt

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auroques
270 millions of speakers
bn

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ঔরক্স
260 millions of speakers
fr

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aurochs
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Aurochs
190 millions of speakers
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Ur
180 millions of speakers
ja

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原牛
130 millions of speakers
ko

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오 록스
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Aurochs
85 millions of speakers
vi

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bò rừng ở âu châu
80 millions of speakers
ta

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காட்டு ஆடுகள்
75 millions of speakers
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अरोच
75 millions of speakers
tr

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yaban öküzü
70 millions of speakers
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uri
65 millions of speakers
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żubr
50 millions of speakers
uk

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зубр
40 millions of speakers
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bour
30 millions of speakers
el

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aurochs
15 millions of speakers
af

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Aurochs
14 millions of speakers
sv

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aurochs
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urokse
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUROCHS»

Discover the use of aurochs in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to aurochs and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Retracing the Aurochs: History, Morphology and Ecology of an ...
Ur - Auerochse - Bos primigenius - Aussterben - Wildrind - Morphologie - Ökologie.
Cis Van Vuure, 2005
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Aurochs & Angels
Book One: Aurochs & Angels is the story of Maurice and Kimber, two lovers in the time of sexual revolution and freedom, the 1960s and 70s.
Michael Hemmingson, 2004
3
Species Richness: Patterns in the Diversity of Life
The ®rst attempt to do this aimed to bring back the extinct wild ox of western Eurasia, known as the aurochs (Bos taurus subsp. primigenius). This animal was the ancestor of the domestic cow, sometimes viewed as a separate species from the ...
Jonathan Adams, 2010
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The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals
Possible factors influencing the size of the aurochs Sexual dimorphism and intrinsic variation The remains have been found in Europe of two different forms of B. primi- genius which differ from each other mainly in size. Riitimeyer7 considered ...
Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby, 2007
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The Serpent and the Eagle: An Introduction to the Elder ...
*Uruz->GO Urus (Aurochs) Uruz->ONUr (The Primal, The Aurochs) Uruz-> OHGUr (The Primal) + Ochs (Ox) ->OE Aurochs ->Mod. Eng. Aurochs, Also *Urus was borrowed by the Greeks and Romans for their terminologies for this animal.
Chris Travers, 2009
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Principles of Cattle Pro...
Within the Bovini tribe, the wild cattle, or aurochs, were most closely related to the gaur and banteng cattle. They were large animals with big horns and powerful forequarters compared with today's domesticated cattle, and they came to inhabit  ...
Phillips, C.J.C.
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The Chora of Metaponto 2: Archaeozoology at Pantanello and ...
The possibility of local aurochs domestication may be hypothesized not only from prehistoric finds, but also from Roman literature. Vergil (Georgica, III, 532) mentions a circumstance in North Italy where, during the rule of Augustus, tamed wild ...
Sándor Bökönyi, Erika Gál, László Bartosiewicz, 2012
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Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
*tauros 'aurochs; bull' (in its first meaning = Bos primigenius}. [IEW 1083 (*teuro-s ); Wat 69 (*(auro-); GI 439 (*ihauro-y. Buck 3.2 1], Olr tard'bull', Wels rarw'bull', Gaul tarvos 'bull' (Celtic < metathesized *tanjos), Lat taurus 'bull', Umb (ace. pi.) ...
J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, 1997
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The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian ...
Capture of the Wild Oxen and Wild Goats (292–317) 292 A woolly aurochs, a handsome aurochs, an aurochs tossing (its) horns, 293 An aurochs with weakened insides was reposing. 294 A horned aurochs of the hills, the pure place, having ...
William W. Hallo, 2010
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European Bison: The Nature Monograph
Living in the Polish lands alongside the European bison was that second huge ruminant, known as the aurochs: Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827. In his 1827 description, Bojanus drew a clear distinction between the bone structure of the ...
Małgorzata Krasińska, Zbigniew A. Krasiński, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUROCHS»

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Ancient teeth reveal evidence of 400000 year-old manmade …
... flakes, hammer stones, hand-axes, and bones from 4,740 animals, such as deer, aurochs, horses, pigs, goats, tortoises and rhinoceroses. «Ancient Origins, Jun 15»
2
Retroactive Classic: The Sword
... with the right amount of thrashed-up power, and "Lament For The Aurochs" nearly reached eight minutes with its blissfully brilliant crescendo. «Artistdirect.com, Jun 15»
3
Chillingham wild cattle – rarer than Siberian tigers or giant pandas
They were once thought to be descended from aurochs, prehistoric wild ox, but scientists are now sceptical about this, pointing out that the ... «FarmersWeekly, Jun 15»
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A piece of primeval England reborn in Sussex
Now it's true that aurochs went extinct 400 years ago; they were the wild cattle of Europe, Asia and North Africa, ancestors of all our domestic ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
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How to create an auroch
Aurochs are the wild ancestors of domestic cattle. Around 10,000 years ago, human populations in the Near East and South Asia began ... «Salon, May 15»
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An Ice Age Heritage, Nearly Lost
... ibexes and extinct cattle called aurochs. While many of the etchings have been damaged over the thousands of years since their creation, ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
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Hidden for 30 millennia, ancient cave art can be viewed by the …
Less familiar were the mammoths — a hairy relative of today's elephants — and the aurochs, large horned wild cows that are also extinct today. «Bend Bulletin, Apr 15»
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'Domesticated' explores how humans have altered animals
ANCIENT BEASTS Aurochs, the ancestors of domestic cows, dominate this replica of a cave painting from Lascaux in southwestern France. «Science News, Apr 15»
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Aurochs: How Hitler and Goering resurrected extinct species to …
Aurochs, or Bos primigenius, died out in 1627 in Poland. They were a large breed of cattle, standing up to 1.8m in height, and was ancestor to ... «International Business Times UK, Jan 15»
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60000-Year-Old Hunter Gatherers Slew Giant Aurochs
60,000-year-old evidence of hunting has just emerged. After eight seasons of excavations alongside the River Jordan, archaeologists have ... «New Historian, Dec 14»
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