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n. 牛

发音

US /ˈɑks/
CA
UK /ˈɒks/

词形变化

oxen 复数 oxes 复数

别名

O O. Ox. OXY oxy.

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.

    公牛

    犉

    牛

  2. 2.

    Any bovine animal (genus Bos).

    Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.

  3. 1.

    Abbreviation of oxygen.

    不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

wild ox

上位词 5

cattle cows oxen bovine kine

下位词 6

yak banteng aurochs banting tsine urus

部分词 1

withers

相关短语

ox is in the ditch ox warbler ox warblers ox knee ox knees ox beetle ox tongue spear have the black ox tread on one's foot whose ox is gored musk ox n. 麝牛 strong as an ox 气壮如牛 grunting ox Indian ox pulse ox know someone from Adam's off ox

词源

From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn. Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उ॒क्षन् (ukṣán).

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