auroch
Ancient wild cattle
An auroch is a large, wild ox that once roamed Europe, Asia, and North Africa, now extinct since the 17th century.
The ancestor of modern domestic cattle, aurochs stood taller than today's breeds and bore distinctive curved horns.
The word appears most often in its plural form, aurochs, which looks singular but covers one or many.
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- bullSteer before castration
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- herdGrazing animals together
- grazingFeeding on pasture
domestication · beef · livestock · ruminant · horned · hoofed · bovid · heifer
Disappeared from sight
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- cave-paintingsAncient images on cavern walls
Lascaux · Poland · hunting · overhunting · extinction · ancient · primeval · rewilding
Having great strength
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
- formidableInspiring fear or respect
- muscularHaving well-developed sinews
- robustStrong and durable
imposing · hulking · towering · wild · fierce · dangerous · untameable · aggressive
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
grazing · domestication · beef · livestock · ruminant · horned · hoofed · bovid · heifer · steer
vanished
Disappeared from sight
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
cave-paintings · Lascaux · Poland · hunting · overhunting · extinction · ancient · primeval · rewilding
powerful
Having great strength
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
- formidableInspiring fear or respect
- muscularHaving well-developed sinews
robust · imposing · hulking · towering · wild · fierce · dangerous · untameable · aggressive · charging
forest
Tree-dense ecosystem
Europe · Asia · temperate · wetland · marsh · meadow · clearing · range · territory · migration
- cattlecow, moo, cows, bull, bulls
- prehistoric ungulates
- Ice Ageice age, mammoths, saber-tooth cat, mammoth, woolly mammoth
- extinct megafaunawoolly mammoth, mammoth, mastodon, saber-toothed cat, saber-tooth tiger
aurochdomestic cattle
Farmed bovine animals
cow · dairy cow · beef cattle · livestock · Hereford