ox

noun
🔊/ɒks/
🔊/ɑːks/
(plural oxen
🔊/ˈɒksn/
🔊/ˈɑːksn/
)
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  1. a bull (= a male cow) that has been castrated (= had part of its sex organs removed), used, especially in the past, for pulling farm equipment, etc. (阉割的)公牛;犍牛compare bullock, steerTopics Animalsc1
  2. (old-fashioned) any cow or bull on a farm 饲养的牛see also cattleTopics Animalsc1
  3. Word OriginOld English oxa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch os and German Ochse, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ukṣán ‘bull’.