Ox

[ɒks] or [ɑks]

解释:

(noun.) any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos.

(noun.) an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus.

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解释:

(n.) 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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解释:

n. a well-known animal that chews the cud the female of which supplies the chief part of the milk used as human food: the male of the cow esp. when castrated:—pl. Ox′en used for both male and female.—ns. Ox′-bot Ox′-war′bler a bot-fly or its larva found under the skin of cattle; Ox′eye a common plant in meadows with a flower like the eye of an ox.—adj. Ox′-eyed having large full ox-like eyes.—ns. Ox′-goad (see Goad); Ox′-peck′er Ox′-bird an African bird which eats the parasites infesting the skins of cattle—also Beefeater; Ox′-tail-soup a kind of soup made of several ingredients one of which is an oxtail cut in joints.—Have the black ox tread on one's foot to experience sorrow or misfortune.

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