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URUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does urus mean?
• URUS (noun)
The noun URUS has 1 sense:
1. large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
Familiarity information: URUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
aurochs; Bos primigenius; urus
Hypernyms ("urus" is a kind of...):
ox; wild ox (any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos)
Holonyms ("urus" is a member of...):
Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)
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