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Definition of aurochs in English: aurochsnoun ˈaʊrɒksˈɔːrɒks A large wild Eurasian ox that was the ancestor of domestic cattle. It was probably exterminated in Britain in the Bronze Age, and the last one was killed in Poland in 1627. 原牛（现代家牛之祖，可能于青铜器时代在英国灭绝，最后一头1627年在波兰被杀）。亦称URUS Bos primigenius, family Bovidae Also called urus Example sentencesExamples - But we wanted to find out whether they also carried a genetic inheritance from the aurochs that still inhabited Europe when cattle were being herded there.
- The wild aurochs that roamed the old Eurasian continent was midway in size between a modern bull and an elephant, too big, strong and fierce to tame.
- Most of the panels include motifs of animals, principally aurochs, horse, ibex, and red deer.
- In the millennia since early Mesopotamians first converted the fierce, ancestral aurochs into the contented cow, a wide variety of specialized breeds have been developed.
- After all, they still have some wildness in them from their prehistoric ancestors, aurochs.
- The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in Poland in the seventeenth century, not long before the last dodos were killed on Mauritius.
- Artwork and human remains indicate that some 40,000 years ago, our ancestors shared this landscape with rhinoceroses, bison, mammoths, aurochs, wild horses, and giant elks.
- The lake basin includes piles of skeletons of large mammals such as fallow deer, red deer, and aurochs, the ancestor of modern cattle.
- The simile is appropriate if the reference is to the aurochs or wild ox, because they had huge, long horns.
- The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
OriginLate 18th century: from German, early variant of Auerochs, from Old High German ūrohso, from ūr (form also found in Old English, of unknown origin) + ohso 'ox'. Definition of aurochs in US English: aurochsnoun A large wild Eurasian ox that was the ancestor of domestic cattle. It was probably exterminated in Britain in the Bronze Age, and the last one was killed in Poland in 1627. 原牛（现代家牛之祖，可能于青铜器时代在英国灭绝，最后一头1627年在波兰被杀）。亦称URUS Bos taurus formerly 'primigenius', family Bovidae Also called urus Example sentencesExamples - Artwork and human remains indicate that some 40,000 years ago, our ancestors shared this landscape with rhinoceroses, bison, mammoths, aurochs, wild horses, and giant elks.
- But we wanted to find out whether they also carried a genetic inheritance from the aurochs that still inhabited Europe when cattle were being herded there.
- The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in Poland in the seventeenth century, not long before the last dodos were killed on Mauritius.
- The lake basin includes piles of skeletons of large mammals such as fallow deer, red deer, and aurochs, the ancestor of modern cattle.
- After all, they still have some wildness in them from their prehistoric ancestors, aurochs.
- The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
- The wild aurochs that roamed the old Eurasian continent was midway in size between a modern bull and an elephant, too big, strong and fierce to tame.
- The simile is appropriate if the reference is to the aurochs or wild ox, because they had huge, long horns.
- Most of the panels include motifs of animals, principally aurochs, horse, ibex, and red deer.
- In the millennia since early Mesopotamians first converted the fierce, ancestral aurochs into the contented cow, a wide variety of specialized breeds have been developed.
OriginLate 18th century: from German, early variant of Auerochs, from Old High German ūrohso, from ūr (form also found in Old English, of unknown origin) + ohso ‘ox’. |