Au'rochs, n.

n. [Ger. aurochs, auerochs, O. H. Ger. ōrohso, from Ger. ūr, āre, Lat. urus, Gr. οὖρος, a wild ox, and ochs, O. H. Gr. ohso, ox. Cf. OWRE.] (Zoöl.) The Bos urus, or bison, of Poland; considered by some as the common ox in a wild state, but regarded by Cuvier as a di