BOS TAURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bos taurus mean? 

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

1. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOS TAURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen

Context example:

a team of oxen

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

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

Meronyms (parts of "Bos taurus"):

beef; boeuf (meat from an adult domestic bovine)

Meronyms (members of "Bos taurus"):

calf (young of domestic cattle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bos taurus"):

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

stirk (yearling heifer or bullock)

bullock; steer (castrated bull)

bull (uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle)

cow; moo-cow (female of domestic cattle:)

beef; beef cattle (cattle that are reared for their meat)

Welsh; Welsh Black (a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales)

red poll (hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle)

Africander (tall large-horned humped cattle of South Africa; used for meat or draft)

dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker (cattle that are reared for their milk)

Devon (red dual-purpose cattle of English origin)

grade (a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed)

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

Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

herd (a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans)