bos taurus

Questions about bos taurus

What does bos taurus mean?

bos taurus means "domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age".

What is another word for bos taurus?

Close synonyms include cattle, cows, kine, oxen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bos taurus a common word?

bos taurus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.