AUROCHS

Aurochs

The aurochs, also urus, ure, the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.

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aurochs

Noun

  1. An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
  2. The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus).


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