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WATER OX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water ox mean?
• WATER OX (noun)
The noun WATER OX has 1 sense:
1. an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
Familiarity information: WATER OX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Asiatic buffalo; Bubalus bubalis; water buffalo; water ox
Hypernyms ("water ox" is a kind of...):
buffalo; Old World buffalo (any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water ox"):
Indian buffalo (upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk)
carabao (water buffalo of the Philippines)
Holonyms ("water ox" is a member of...):
Bubalus; genus Bubalus; tribe Bubalus (in some classification systems included in genus Bos; water buffaloes)
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