oxen

FREQ #20496

牛, 公牛

发音

US /ˈɑksən/
UK /ˈɒksən/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    plural of ox

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of, relating to, or resembling an ox; oxlike

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

cattle cows kine

上位词 1

bovine

下位词 10

cow grade bull beef devon steer ox bullock Welsh Africander

部分词 3

beef calf boeuf

整体词 1

herd

相关短语

olly olly oxen free musk oxen grunting oxen Indian oxen one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen wild oxen off oxen near oxen musk ox n. 麝牛 grunting ox Indian ox off ox grey ox shrub ox wild ox 野牛

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn Proto-Germanic *uhsô Proto-West Germanic *ohsō Old English oxa Old English oxan Middle English oxen English oxen From Middle English oxen, from Old English oxan, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsan, from Proto-Germanic *uhsniz, nominative and accusative plural of *uhsô (“ox”), equivalent to ox + -en (plural ending).

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