ox
Multiple Entries:ox ox- oxy-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ox/ɒks/
▶noun (pl. oxen /ˈɒks(ə)n/) a domesticated bovine animal kept for milk or meat; a cow or bull. See also cattle.
■ used in names of wild animals related to or resembling this, e.g. musk ox.
■ a castrated bull, especially as a draught animal.
– origin OE oxa, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ox-/ɒks/
▶combining form variant spelling of oxy-2 reduced before a vowel (as in oxic).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
oxy-1
▶combining form denoting sharpness: oxytone.
– origin from Gk oxus ‘sharp’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
oxy-2 (also ox-)
▶combining form Chemistry representing oxygen.
'ox' also found in these Oxford entries:
aleph
- aurochs
- banteng
- beef
- bison
- boustrophedon
- bovid
- bovine
- Bovril
- Brahmin
- bucolic
- buffalo
- bugle
- bugloss
- bulimia
- carboxyl
- clod
- cow
- dog
- fluoxetine
- gaur
- gayal
- goat-antelope
- hecatomb
- kidney
- kouprey
- magnox
- marguerite
- moon daisy
- MOX
- musk ox
- naproxen
- ox-
- oxbow
- oxen
- oxer
- ox-eye daisy
- ox fence
- oxhide
- oxlip
- oxtail
- ox tongue
- oxy-
- pyridoxine
- taurine
- thyroxine
- tongue
- trek
- yak
