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- a large domesticated wild ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, used in Tibet as a pack animal and for its milk, meat, and hide牦牛。
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- Genus Bos, family Bovidae; the domesticated B. grunniens, descended from the wild B. mutus, which is still found rarely at high altitude.牛属, 牛科; 驯养的牦牛, 为现在高原上罕见的野牦牛的后裔。
词源
late 18th cent.: from Tibetan gyag.