Auroch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Auroch is a noun meaning Alternative form of aurochs.
Meaning
Alternative form of aurochs.
Example Sentences
The next time they darted in at the auroch, Marra nipped at its ear and Pell actually took its jowls in his mouth.
Cuvier thus carefully marks the distinctions between the species: “The forehead of the ox is flat and a little concave; —that of the auroch protuberant, although less so than the buffalo's; […]
The truth is, he says, that the first of these skulls is that of an auroch, with no difference which can reasonably be considered as specific; and the second belongs, he conceives, simply to the species of our domestic ox, of which it has all the characters.
Word Forms
- aurochs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wisent, tauros, heck, gaour, reem, zubr.
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