Hypertext Webster Gateway: "urus"
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) 1.7 (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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