Meaning & use
wild ox
A large, powerful wild bovine animal, such as the gaur or the extinct aurochs.
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The wild ox grazed alone at the edge of the forest clearing at dusk.
Ancient cave paintings often depicted hunters chasing the wild ox across open plains.
A note on using this word
Wild ox is a general term covering several undomesticated bovine species rather than one single, precisely defined animal.
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