aurochs
英 ['ɔːrɒks; 'aʊ-]
美['ɔrɑks]
- n. 欧洲野牛
英英释义
- 1. 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
英文词源
- aurochs
- aurochs: see ox
- aurochs (n.)
- 1766, misapplication to the European bison (Bos bison) of a word that actually refers to a species of wild ox (Bos ursus) that went extinct 17c., from German Aurochs, from Old High German urohso, from uro "aurochs" (cognate with Old English ur, Old Norse ürr), which is of unknown origin, + ohso "ox" (see ox). Latin urus and Greek ouros are Germanic loan-words.
词态变化
复数: aurochs;