What's the difference between boxen and oxen?

Boxen


Definition:

  • (a.) Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).

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Oxen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Ox

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  • (1) The antiserum cross-reacted with monkey serum, but not with sera from dogs, rats, and mice, horses, pigs, guinea pigs, oxen, and rabbits.
  • (2) The identification of these metabolites as 9 beta,15(S)-dihydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-epoxymethano-5(Z),13(E)-prostadienoic acid and the R and S isomer of 15(S)-hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(C-hydroxy-epoxymethano)-5(Z),13(E)-prostadienoic acid is only tentative since no reference compounds were available, but clearly thromboxane synthase was acting as an oxene transferase in this reaction.
  • (3) Hydatid cysts were collected from camels, horses, oxen and sheep in various geographical locations.
  • (4) Zebu oxen had higher pvCO2 and FFA and lower pH, pvO2 and lactate in response to exercise.
  • (5) A number of young Friesian oxen were slaughtered (one at a time) for parasite recovery for 12 consecutive months, from April 1987 to March 1988, on a farm in the Fauresmith district of the south western Orange Free State.
  • (6) The daily starch intake of the oxen ranged from 575 to 2739 g on nutrition level (NL) 1.7 and from 365 to 1804 g on NL 1.1.
  • (7) A mechanism is proposed in which an initial Lewis acid-base interaction of Fe(III)Cl3 with H2O2 generates a highly electrophilic Fe(III)-oxene species as the reactive intermediate.
  • (8) Seasonal changes in weight were severe for both work oxen (87 to 107% of mean weight) and for cows (88 to 110%).
  • (9) Visitors roam like herds of lobotomised oxen in search of nourishment, from clambering on a net over some flowerbeds inside Brazil’s giant climbing frame, to the touch-screen excitement of playing “Lithuania or not?” (a game of swiping national dishes into a digital shopping basket).
  • (10) 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 .
  • (11) All four tick resistant oxen recovered after a mild febrile reaction.
  • (12) "Wild" Simulium bovis females were collected after they had taken blood on a bait oxen with skin microfilariae (mf) of Onchocerca dukei and Onchocerca ochengi.
  • (13) An involvement of the immonium oxene in the reaction mechanism is consistent with ferryl heme reduction by nitroxides and a detection of the reduced nitroxide when the reaction mixture is supplemented with the two-electron reductant sodium borohydride.
  • (14) Step a few feet from the beach, however, and the small towns are 100% Chilean with colourful adobe homes and farmers who still use oxen-pulled carts.
  • (15) The differences in the content of DNA, RNA and protein per g tissue between male calves, bulls, short scrotum bulls and oxen of the same age were in part significant.
  • (16) In the present study, the position of the parathyroids III (external parathyroids) and of the parathyroids IV (internal parathyroids) was examined in 25 young calves, 10 veal calves and 5 adult oxen.
  • (17) In addition, sera from 200 sheep and cattle and from 39 wild mammals were tested: 8 sheep, 3 oxen, and 1 hedgehog showed evidence of recent infection.
  • (18) A total of 458 cows, oxen, and calves (up to the second year of age) were studied over the 1971-1973 period.
  • (19) These studies were carried out using chronically implanted thermode probes in conscious oxen at 15 degrees C air temperature.
  • (20) The cost due to draft oxen being affected was estimated at K. 428 (US$193) per affected ox.

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