• n. A term inherited from Germanic. From the Old English "oxa" "oxe" and Middle English "ocxe" "oxhe" "nox" among others. It refers to the representation of the large cloven-hoofed, often horned ruminant mammal, Bos taurus (family Bovidae), derived from the extinct Eurasian aurochs and long domesticated for its milk, meat, and hide; a cow, a bull; (in plural) cattle.

• Iconography

• Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264087
• depiction > animal

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