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/ˈɡaʊ.ə/ · noun
An Asian species of wild bovine (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition..
[…] I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all. His only rivals for the kingship are the Indian bison, or gaur (Bos gaurus), of Southern India, and the aurochs, or European bison, both of which really surpass him in height, if not in actual balk also.
Of the other ruminants the ox, buffalo, yak, goat, sheep and a few others are domestic animals, while the bison and the gaur, or so-called Indian bison, and a large number of wild goats and sheep have been neglected.
Use gaur when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gaur means An Asian species of wild bovine (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition..
Common synonyms include Bos frontalis gaurus, bibos gaurus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all. His only rivals for the kingship are the Indian bison, or gaur (Bos gaurus), of Southern India, and the aurochs, or European bison, both of which really surpass him in height, if not in actual balk also.
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