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aurochsen

aurochsen is the plural of aurochs.

Meaning of aurochs

Noun

aurochs (plural aurochs or aurochsen or aurochses)

  1. An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
  2. The European bison (Bos bonasus, or Europæus).

Origin of aurochsen

A direct parallel of the German plural Ochsen of Ochs, Ochse (“ox”), recreating the same distinction by analogy as English singular ox and plural oxen; equivalent to aurochs + -en (plural ending).

Questions about aurochsen

What is aurochsen the plural of?
Aurochsen is the plural of aurochs.

Words near aurochsen in the dictionary

  1. auroch
  2. aurochloride
  3. aurochlorides
  4. aurochrome
  5. aurochs
  6. aurochsen
  7. aurochses
  8. aurocyanide
  9. aurocyanides
  10. aurodrosopterin
  11. aurofusarin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aurochsen (page history and authors); aurochs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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