auroch

auroch (plural aurochs)

1. Alternative spelling of aurochs
   • 1814, James Parkinson, Organic Remains of a Former World, page 322:

     The truth is, he says, that the first of these skulls is that of an auroch, with no difference which can reasonably be considered as specific; and the second belongs, he conceives, simply to the species of our domestic ox, of which it has all the characters.

   • 1839, Henry Woods, Description of the Fossil Skull of an Ox, page 23:

     Cuvier thus carefully marks the distinctions between the species: “The forehead of the ox is flat and a little concave; —that of the auroch protuberant, although less so than the buffalo's; […]

   • 2012, Dorothy Hearst, Secrets of the Wolves, page 286:

     The next time they darted in at the auroch, Marra nipped at its ear and Pell actually took its jowls in his mouth.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɔk/, /o.ʁɔk/

auroch m (plural aurochs)

1. post-1990 spelling of aurochs