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Ox

The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.

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Aurochs 76% connected

The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, a…

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Banteng 76% connected

The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

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Urus 76% connected

A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in t…

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Yak 76% connected

A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered wit…

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Bovine 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

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Cattle 76% connected

Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

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Cows 76% connected

of Cow

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Kine 76% connected

of Cow

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Oxen 76% connected

of Ox

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Withers 70% connected

The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.

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