| 释义 |
‖ zho|ʒəʊ|
[Tibetan ṃdso.]
A hybrid bovine animal, bred from a yak bull and a common cow, used for domestic purposes in Northern India. Also called ‖ zobo, zobu [with masc. affix -bo]. So ‖ zhomo, also jomo [with fem. affix -mo], a female zho.
1841Moorcroft Trav. I. 272 Oxen of the common kind are not used for ploughing, the zho ox, or hybrid male between the yak..and the common cow, or the humped variety called zebu, being greatly preferred, as is its sister, the zhomo, for the dairy. Ploughing is performed by a pair of zhos. Ibid. 309 The Zho or Yak-mule. 1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. ix. 213 The zobo..is but rarely seen in these mountains, though common in the North West Himalaya. 1867A. L. Adams Wand. Nat. India 271. 1880 R. Strachey in Encycl. Brit. XI. 833/2 The yák, from which is reared a cross breed with the ordinary horned cattle of India locally called ‘zobu’. |