gaurn.
/ɡaʊə/ A large species of ox, Bos gaurus, found wild in various parts of India.
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1806 M. Elphinstone in T. E. Colebrooke Life M. Elphinstone (1884) I. 156 There is an account of a similar kind called the Gore; one distinction between it and the buffalo is the length of the hoofs.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 49 I have met with an account of Gayals..which appear..to be animals of the same species as the Gour.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 119 I need only advert to other colossal quadrupeds..the camel, the gaur, the gayall.
1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 15 The gaur (Bos gaurus) the misnamed bison of Indian sportsmen.
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