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Definition of Bos indicus
1. Noun. Any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding.
Group relationships: Bos, Genus Bos
Generic synonyms: Bovine
Specialized synonyms: Zebu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bos Indicus
Literary usage of Bos indicus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"It is never met with in the kindred species 'Bos indicus? which has had something
to do ... The original wild form of Bos indicus is completely extinct. ..."
2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"In all probability there existed once in North-eastern Africa a type of wild ox
which was a connecting link between the wild Indian cattle (Bos indicus, ..."
3. Use-inheritance Illustrated by the Direction of Hair on the Bodies of Animals by Walter Aubrey Kidd (1901)
"APPENDIX (2) The Frontal whorl is "present only in the Ungulate order and in the
following species: —Bos indicus, B. frontalis, B. sondaicus, ..."
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