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Definition: Aurochs |
AurochsNoun1. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison. 2. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AurochsSynonyms: urus (n), wisent (n). (additional references) |
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Most or all modern cattle are direct descendants of the aurochs; the South Asian domestic cattle, the zebu, may be descended from a related species, the gaur.
The last recorded instance of the aurochs was the report of the death of "the last" aurochs, hunted and killed by poachers in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland.
Aurochs are depicted in many cave paintings such as those found at Lascaux and Livernon in France. In these and many other early art works, the aurochs are attributed with possessing magical qualities. Early carvings of the aurochs have also been found.
A 1999 archaeological dig in Peterborough uncovered the skull of an aurochs but the front part of the skull had been removed but the horns remained attached. The supposition is that the killing of the aurochs in this instance was a sacrificial act.
In the 1920s two German zookeepers --brothers by the names of Heinz and Lutz Heck-- attempted to breed the aurochs back into existence from the domestic cattle that were their descendants. The result is the breed called Heck Cattle, or "Recreated Aurochs" or "Heck Aurochs", which bears a physical resemblance to what is known about the wild aurochs. The major difference is in size -- a recreated aurochs bull is not much larger than the bull of most breeds of domestic cattle, while wild aurochs bulls are believed to have often exceeded 1000 kilograms: half the size of a rhinoceros.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aurochs."
Crosswords: Aurochs |
| English words defined with "aurochs": Bonassus ♦ Owre ♦ Urochs, Urox ♦ Zubr. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "aurochs": Ox ♦ Urox, urus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aurochs" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (aurochs). |
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| "Aurochs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aurochs" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aurochs | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "aurochs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | oeros. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bizon (bison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الأرخص ثور برى أوروبي, أرخصي بمعنى ثوري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | зубър. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oeros. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | uro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | frumneyt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aurochs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ur (canton of Uri, infrared, ultrared, ultra-red), Auerochse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βόνασοσ (bison), βούβαλοσ (bison, buffalo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bölény (bison, buffalo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aurochsay auroque, boi selvagem. (various references) zimbru, bour. (various references) зубр (wisent). (various references) vrsta divljeg goveda. (various references) uro. (various references) visent, uroxe. (various references) avrupa bizonu, yaban öküzü (bison). (various references) зубр (wisent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | alim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bison, Bos primigenius, RM:bov selvadi, urus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aurochs": aurochses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "aurochs" (pronounced 'Au"rochs'): Urochs. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: chorus, soucar. | |
-2 letters: arcus, chaos, chars, crash, crush, hoars, hocus, horas, hours, orach, orcas, roach, sauch, scaur, scour, surah. | |
-3 letters: arch, arco, arcs, cars, cash, chao, char, cors, cosh, crus, curs, hoar, hora, hour, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, ouch, ours, rash, rhos, rhus, rocs, rush, scar, soar, sora, sour, such, sura, ursa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: choragus. | |
+2 letters: archosaur, aurochses, avouchers, barouches, chancrous, coauthors, guacharos, housecarl, huarachos, outcharms, roughcast, unanchors. | |
+3 letters: archosaurs, cartouches, chivalrous, choraguses, coryphaeus, cutthroats, guacharoes, herbaceous, housecarls, outcharges, outmarches, outreaches, quebrachos, roughcasts, scaramouch, supermacho, touchmarks, unactorish. | |
+4 letters: accoucheurs, anachronous, champertous, chiaroscuro, curatorship, ichthyosaur, outpreaches, punchboards, sarcophagus, scaramouche, supermachos, thiouracils, treacherous, unscholarly. | |
+5 letters: archdukedoms, archesporium, archosaurian, asynchronous, chaulmoogras, chiaroscuros, chivalrously, coauthorship, coprophagous, curatorships, euchromatins, ichthyosaurs, necrophagous, noncrushable, orchidaceous, roughcasting, scaramouches, subarachnoid, unchivalrous, unhistorical, urochordates. | |
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