water ox

Questions about water ox

What does water ox mean?

water ox means "an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal".

What is another word for water ox?

Close synonyms include water buffalo, Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis. 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 water ox a common word?

water ox is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.