Urus

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Urus \U"rus\, n. [L.; of Teutonic origin. See {Aurochs}.]
     (Zool.)
     A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal
     ({Bos urus} or {Bos primigenius}) anciently abundant in
     Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of
     Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly


     capable of domestication. Called also, {ur}, {ure}, and
     {tur}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  urus
       n : large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox;
           considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle [syn:
           {aurochs}, {Bos primigenius}]