A large cloven-hoofed, often horned ruminant mammal, Bos taurus (family Bovidae), derived from the extinct Eurasian aurochs and long domesticated…

Applied loosely to a bull, or bovine beast generally. Obsolete exc. dialect.

An ox; any animal of the ox kind; esp. a fattened beast, or its carcase. Also in singular. (Now chiefly U.S.)

Belonging to, or characteristic of, the ox tribe. Also elliptical = bovine animal.

an Australian breed of silver to grey, polled beef cattle, first bred in the Murray River valley, and derived from crossing the Aberdeen Angus with…