urus

u·rus

E0242600 (yo͝or′əs)n. pl. u·rus·es See aurochs.

[Latin ūrus, of Germanic origin.]

urus

(ˈjʊərəs) n, pl uruses1. (Animals) another name for the aurochs2. (Palaeontology) another name for the aurochs[C17: from ūrus, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German ūr, Old Norse urr, Greek ouros aurochs]

au•rochs

(ˈɔr ɒks)

n., pl. -rochs. 1. a large, extinct European wild ox, Bos primigenius. 2. bison. (def. 2). [1760–70; < German, variant (now obsolete) of Auerochs, Old High German ūrohso=ūr (c. Old English ūr bison) + ohso ox]

Thesaurus

Noun

urus - large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattleBos primigenius, aurochsBos, genus Bos - wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Boviniwild ox, ox - any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos

Urus

(Bos primigenius,) an extinct wild ox; ancestor of the domestic ox. The urus was widespread during the second half of the Anthropogenic in the forest-steppe and steppe regions of the eastern hemisphere. The height reached 2 m at the shoulders and 1.8 m at the sacrum; the weight reached 800 kg. The skull had a flat, somewhat indented forehead, and the horns were spreading. The legs were longer than those of other oxen. The urus was hunted, and the last representative, a female, was killed in Poland in 1627.

REFERENCES

Bogoliubskii, S. N. Proiskhozhdenie i preobrazovanie domashnikh zhivotnykh. Moscow, 1959.
Zeuner, F. E. A History of Domesticated Animals. London, 1963.

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noun large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox

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