ox

名词 n.
/ˈɒks/    /ˈɑks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
    — a yoke of oxen
  2. Abbreviation of oxygen. abbreviation,alt-of,uncountable
    — I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.
  3. Any bovine animal (genus Bos).
    — Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.

词形变化

oxen plural oxes nonstandard,plural O alternative O. alternative OX alternative Ox. alternative Ox alternative ox. alternative OXY alternative Oxy alternative oxy alternative oxy. alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.
Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उ॒क्षन् (ukṣán).
词源 2
Clipping of oxygen.
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