(n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused.
Example Sentences:
(1) The news game creator Tomas Rawlings of Bristol studio Auroch Digital was a guest speaker.
(2) Other discoveries in the area include evidence of Mesolithic people feasting on aurochs (huge oxen), salmon, trout, hazelnuts and even frog’s legs, around eight millennia before they became a French staple .
(3) Besides these hormones, the blood of the aurochs contains cortison, 17-oxy-11-deoxycorticosteron ("S" compounds) and unidentified fraction.
(4) Compounds revealed in the blood of the aurochs were also found in the bison and ox.
(5) Tomas Rawlings, whose digital media and video games consultancy Auroch Digital runs the news-gaming project Game The News , explained that journalists are now not only competing with other news organisations, they're also competing with games.
(6) "We can see people eating huge pieces of aurochs, cows which are three times the size of a normal cow, and we've got wild boar, red deer and hazelnuts.
(7) Inactivation of active and reinactivation of "silent" genes responsible for modification of AMY-1 molecules are observed in hybrids of bison x cow and bison x aurochs combinations.
(8) Using thin-layer chromatography, studies have been made on corticosteroids in the aurochs Bison bonasus.
(9) There is also evidence of feasting, including flints and giant bulls known as aurochs, the experts said.
Urus
Definition:
(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.