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Definition of Bos banteng

1. Noun. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bos Banteng

Literary usage of Bos banteng

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1896)
"Banteng, also banting, the wild ox of Java, Borneo, and the Malay peninsula, Bos banteng. Malay ,***J banteng, banting, Javanese banteng, Soudanese banteng, ..."

2. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"As another instance of the distinctness of the mammalian fauna of Java from that of Borneo and Sumatra, we may take the case of the banteng (bos banteng), ..."

3. About Ceylon and Borneo: Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One to by Walter J. Clutterbuck (1892)
"Then there was a vast acreage of flat land covered with very much overgrown forest, and in this flat land the bison (bos banteng) disports himself all ..."

4. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Branch (1889)
"On the North and East there are large herds of wild cattle said to belong to two species, bos banteng and Bos Gaurus or Bos Sondaicus. ..."

5. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"... apes (Hylobates), tigers, leopards, rhinoceros and wild cattle (bos banteng) are its more conspicuous mammals. Over 200 species of birds, ..."

6. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1869)
"We saw plenty of the fine race of domestic cattle descended from the Bos- banteng of Java, driven by half-naked boys, or tethered in L ..."

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