auroch

English

Noun

auroch (plural 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.

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁɔk/, /o.ʁɔk/

Noun

auroch m (plural aurochs)

  1. post-1990 spelling of aurochs
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