aurochとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

auroch (複数形 aurochs)

1. Alternative spelling of aurochs
   • 1814, James Parkinson, Organic Remains of a Former World (page 322)

     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.

   • 1839, Henry Woods, Description of the Fossil Skull of an Ox (page 23)

     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; […]

   • 2012, Dorothy Hearst, Secrets of the Wolves (page 286)

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