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Definition of Bibos gaurus
1. Noun. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bibos Gaurus
Literary usage of Bibos gaurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"... very broad behind, and with a very high occipital crest; nose rapidly tapering
from the orbits; nasal bones broad. Bibos gaurus, Gray, Cat. ..."
2. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1899)
"A fine head of the Indian Wild Ox (Bibos gaurus), presented by Mr. Sims Reeve,
is a very handsome object; and to Mr. Russell J. Colman the Museum is ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A large wild ox of India, Bibos gaurus, the wild stock of the domesticated gay-
al, and related to the zebu, it inhabits the jungles of Assam, of Cuttack in ..."
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