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urus |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Urus \U"rus\, n. [L.; of Teutonic origin. See {Aurochs}.] (Zo["o]l.) A very large powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal ({Bos urus or primigenius}) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius C[ae]sar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also {ur}, {ure}, and {tur}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: urus n : large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle [syn: {aurochs}, {Bos primigenius}]
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