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Genus Bos   /dʒˈinəs bɑs/   Listen
Genus Bos

noun
1.
Wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini.  Synonym: Bos.






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"Genus Bos" Quotes from Famous Books



... contribution which the kindred of the bulls, have made by their strength, we must set that which has come from their milk. Although this substance can be obtained in small quantities from several other domesticated animals, the species of the genus Bos alone have yielded it in sufficient quantities greatly to affect the development of man. It is difficult to measure the importance of the addition to the diet, both of savage and civilized peoples, which milk affords. It is a fact well known to physiologists ...
— Domesticated Animals - Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler



Words linked to "Genus Bos" :   oxen, kine, brahmin, cows, Bos banteng, zebu, Bos indicus, banteng, wild ox, family Bovidae, Bos taurus, cattle, ox, Bos grunniens, mammal genus, yak, brahman, urus, bovine, aurochs, Bos primigenius, Bovidae, banting, Brahma, tsine



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