BOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bos mean? 

• BOS (noun)
  The noun BOS has 1 sense:

1. wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini

  Familiarity information: BOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos; genus Bos

Hypernyms ("Bos" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Bos"):

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

ox; wild ox (any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos)

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)

Bos indicus; Brahma; Brahman; Brahmin (any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding)

zebu (domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia)

aurochs; Bos primigenius; urus (large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle)

Bos grunniens; yak (large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated)

banteng; banting; Bos banteng; tsine (wild ox of the Malay Archipelago)

Holonyms ("Bos" is a member of...):

Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)

 Context examples 

The domesticated ungulates, Bos primigenius taurus and Bos primigenius indicus.

(Cow, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)