Crossword-Solution: URUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Urus | n. | A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “URUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A European wild ox. | 1 answer |
| extinct wild cattle | 1 answer |
| Wild ox of yore | 1 answer |
| Wild ox of Caesar's day. | 1 answer |
| The aurochs, extinct wild ox. | 1 answer |
| Steer's wild ancestor | 1 answer |
| Shaggy wild ox, now extinct. | 1 answer |
| Ox of ancient Europe. | 1 answer |
| Extinct German ox | 1 answer |
| Anoa's cousin | 1 answer |
| Ancient wild ox. | 1 answer |
| Extinct wild ox | 2 answers |
| Extinct ox. | 2 answers |
| EUROPEAN wild ox, extinct | 2 answers |
| EUROPEAN ox | 4 answers |
| AUROCHS | 7 answers |
| Wild ox | 8 answers |
| arna relative | 17 answers |
| Ox. | 19 answers |
| ANOA RELATIVE | 27 answers |
| BANTENG RELATIVE | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with URUS (5)
Beneath his rock in the early world Smiling the naked hunter lay, And sketched on horn the spear he hurled, The urus which he made his prey.
The following are some of the most important: Urus, bison, horse, stag, roe, beaver, rabbit, otter, weasel, martin, wildcat, fox, wolf, wild boar, brown bear, grizzly bear.
From the anatomical character of the bones of the urus, or auerochs, found among the relics of the lacustrine population of ancient Switzerland, and from other circumstances, it is inferred that this animal had been domesticated by that people; and it is stated, I know not upon what authority, in Le Alpi che cingono l'Italia, that it had been tamed by the Veneti also.
This is a fact of much interest, because it is one of the very few HISTORICALLY known instances of the extinction of a domestic quadruped, and the extreme improbability of such an event gives some countenance to the theory of the identity of the domestic ox with, and its descent from, the urus.]Of course, it owes the horse, the ass, the ox, the sheep, the goat, and the swine, as does also Australia, to European colonization.
Three clans of this tribe inhabit this part of the Somali country, viz., Bah Gummaron, Rer Hamturwa, and Urus Sugay.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1952–1999).