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Meanings of wild ox in English

Portuguese
boi

Any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos.

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        Examples for "ox"
        Examples for "ox"
        1
        The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        2
        The brains of an ox could concoct such ideas in nine days.
        Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Withi...
        3
        In the fast-fading light he focused it on the two ox carts.
        Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Undergro...
        4
        In America every one works-eventhe horse, the ass and the ox.
        In the Days of Poor Richard
        5
        I saw Iwan walking beside the lead ox, holding a long goad.
        Scarlet
        Usage of wild ox in English
        1
        Don't stand there looking like a wild ox, but come up to the yoke.
        Jess
        2
        Nor did they fail to offer the draught in the horns of the wild ox.
        The Danish History, Books I-IX
        3
        He swooped down and stood upon the wild ox.
        The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
        4
        The carcass of a wild ox make thy hiding-place.
        The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
        5
        He instructs the Mother Serpent to slay a wild ox and conceal herself in its entrails.
        Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
        6
        The wild ox was altogether scarce; the wild sheep, the rabbit, and the hare, were probably not common.
        The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: ...
        7
        The most characteristic animal of the Western plains was the great, shaggy-maned wild ox, the bison, commonly known as buffalo.
        State of the Union Addresses
        8
        Come, let us go and let us also pounce down upon the carcass of the wild ox and eat, we too.
        The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
        9
        The first wild ox began to tear up the grass and eat it; he was interfering with nature, if there is any nature.
        The Ball and the Cross
        10
        Again, if a man sue for honors or church preferments, an ass or wild ox shall sooner get them than a wise man.
        The Praise of Folly
        11
        Our prehistoric ancestors hunted the mammoth, the woolly-haired rhinoceros, and Irish elk; the ancient Britons had the wild ox, the deer, and the wolf.
        The Pleasures of Life
        12
        The god suggests a plan whereby the hostile bird may be caught: the body of a wild ox is to be set as a snare.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        13
        This instrument, slightly conical in shape, is formed from a log of fine-grained wood, light in colour, with a cover made from wild ox hide.
        Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the L...
        14
        On the poop also were the King's trumpeters bearing the "war horns"-longhorns of the wild ox, which now sounded the signal for battle.
        Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima
        15
        The Eagle comes to feed on the carcass, unheeding the warning of one of his children, who says, "The serpent lies in this wild ox":
        Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
        16
        In North Africa-inthe Sahara Desert-exists a large species, called by the Arabs the Wild Ox.
        Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for...
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