Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large, dark-coated wild ox (Bos gaurus) of hilly areas of southeast Asia. Also called seladang.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as gare.
- n. A large wild ox of India, Bibos gaurus, the wild stock of the domesticated gayal, and related to the zebu. It inhabits the jungles of Assam, of Cuttack in the Madras Presidency, and of the Central Provinces. It has a broad protuberant forehead, short conical horns very thick at the base, high shoulders, and a long tail brushy at the end. The color is dark, with the white legs which also characterize the gayal. The hide is very thick, and is valued as a material for shields. The gaur is not known in the domesticated state, the animal which has been reclaimed being a modified variety. See
gayal . Also writtengour .
Wiktionary
- n. An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India
Etymologies
- From Hindustani. (Wiktionary)
- Hindi, from Sanskrit gauraḥ. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With its huge head, massive body, and sturdy limbs, the gaur is the embodiment of vigor and strength.”
“The Year 2000, was a story about how a group of scientists were trying to help save an endangered species of bovine called the gaur by using modern-day cattle as surrogates for clones.”
“Bob Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts cloned an endangered wild cattle species called the gaur using a cow's egg.”
“For my part, I threatened to throw out all her chew toys and make her live on nothing but bamboo and gaur chips.”
The Huffington Post: Louis Bayard: A Tiger Mom Shares Her Secrets
“Stuart said the same approach could be applied to a range of species in Asia, including the wild water buffalo, several types of primates and the gaur, the largest cattle on earth.”
The Washington Post: Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger
“Stuart said the same approach could be applied to a variety of species in Asia, including the wild water buffalo, several types of primates and the gaur, the world's largest cattle.”
The Washington Post: Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger
“As it turned out, I did see lots of wildlife -- elephants, monkeys, spotted deer (or chital), bison-like gaur, and wild pigs (see slideshow above) -- but alas I was not lucky when it came to tigers.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: Save the Tiger ... Indian Style
“The report did not reveal where the rhino was snapped, but said the photo was taken in a wildlife corridor targeted by the Wildlife and National Parks Department which also spotted elephants, sun bears and the bison-like gaur.”
“The ecoregion is wider in the drier, leeward side of the mountain range, where it drops down to the dry Deccan Plateau to encompass some prime habitat where some of the most important populations of tiger (Panthera tigris), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), and gaur (Bos gaurus) live.”
“Among the larger threatened mammal species in this ecoregion are the tiger, Asian elephant, gaur, Nilgiri langur, wild dog (Cuon alpinus), and sloth bear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gaur’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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Mr. Pronunciation's Bad Day
Mr. Pronunciation is an upstanding and reliable sort of dude. He's like the Clark Kent of the pronunciation world. Sometimes, though, he botches up a pronunciation and, you know, he's in a hurry an...
colonel, treacle, cruel, laissez faire, poo, stupid, sashay, concrete, birthmark, chic, draught, gaur and 11 more...
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G...R...E
gross.
sybarite, restiveness, churl, nepotism, jingoism, pusillanimous, gaffe, incisive, enervate, bucolic, concomitant, abeyance and 158 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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four
another list of good words, yo.
plasma, enology, cayenne, mare's tail, rosehip, hideous, rojak, vigilante, arsenic, scandal, mutiny, espionage and 88 more...
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zoology
animals of interest
sloth, kakapo, kaka, hoatzin, numbat, wombat, hyena, wallaby, emu, morepork, jackdaw, magpie and 73 more...
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words-with-friends
words i have learned through the game
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gaur.
chained_bear For a usage note see banteng. Mar 5, 2008