Meaning of auroch | Babel Free

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Espèce de taureau sauvage, ancêtre probable des bovins actuels, à présent disparu et qu’on appelle aussi « bœuf urus » et « ure » (surtout dans les mots croisés!).

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Examples

“The truth is, he says, that the first of these skulls is that of an auroch, with no difference which can reasonably be considered as specific; and the second belongs, he conceives, simply to the species of our domestic ox, of which it has all the characters.”

“Cuvier thus carefully marks the distinctions between the species: “The forehead of the ox is flat and a little concave; —that of the auroch protuberant, although less so than the buffalo's; […]”

“The next time they darted in at the auroch, Marra nipped at its ear and Pell actually took its jowls in his mouth.”

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