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Meanings of
oxen
in English
Portuguese
gado
Catalan
bestiar
Spanish
ganado
Back to the meaning
Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.
cattle
cows
kine
Bos taurus
Portuguese
gado
Synonyms
Examples for "
cattle
"
cattle
cows
kine
Bos taurus
Examples for "
cattle
"
1
The BSE crisis continues with almost no
cattle
trading in the Republic.
2
Furthermore, she said, a third area showed evidence of increased
cattle
TB.
3
A
cattle
station without one in these days was a back number.
4
However, he stressed the threat TB in
cattle
posed to his members.
5
In late April, it said it would exit its U.S.
cattle
business.
1
He said selling New Zealand dairy
cows
to China was short-term thinking.
2
They used to live in Yukhovichi as farmers, keeping
cows
and poultry.
3
On second thoughts, I'll dance with the
cows
until you come home.
4
Henk has been breeding
cows
for 30 years and milks year round.
5
In elegant phraseology they are providences; in plain language they are
milch
-
cows
.
1
There are far too many advantages in ensuring that the
kine
survive.
2
Kynan said that he supposed the owners of the
kine
were about.
3
In fore of she set apples, chewing-thing and meat of many
kine
.
4
He should again utter the formula when actually giving away the
kine
.
5
It is
kine
,
again, that produce the food upon which creatures subsist.
1
We mapped SPRN in
Bos
taurus
by comparative analysis of the locus and of the predicted flanking genes.
Usage of
oxen
in English
1
Live stock and implements: four horses; four
oxen
;
three cows and calves.
2
In turn
oxen
and horses were soon being replaced by inanimate power.
3
At best there were but few horses in the valley; mostly
oxen
.
4
To capture the
oxen
of Geryon was the tenth labor of Hercules.
5
There were more horses than
oxen
in use now in the fields.
6
The
oxen
plodded out of the stockade and swung to the left.
7
So they left the
oxen
and took the path through the woods.
8
The cows and
oxen
were rubbed down as in Switzerland and Auvergne.
9
Working quickly, they unyoked the
oxen
and led them from the wallow.
10
Now over the colossal stone
oxen
hung the bells of the Cathedral.
11
Others were hoofprints, like goats or
oxen
;
those were Trollocs for sure.
12
They were property just as
oxen
or horses were in the North.
13
Simpler to use the
oxen
,
unaccustomed as they were to the task.
14
The rest of the party proceeded on foot, or on the
oxen
.
15
Leather is made from the hides of cows; sheep,
oxen
,
and goats.
16
They moved from Hayburn, Georgia in a covered wagon drawn by
oxen
.
Other examples for "oxen"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
oxen
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
draw by oxen
white oxen
fat oxen
many oxen
wild oxen
More collocations
Translations for
oxen
Portuguese
gado
gado bovino
vacum
boi
vaca
bovinos
Catalan
bestiar
bestiar boví
Spanish
ganado
bos taurus
vacas
bueyes
Oxen
through the time
Oxen
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common