Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large, dark brown wild ox (Bos gaurus) of tropical woodlands of South and Southeast Asia.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as gare.
  • noun A large wild ox of India, Bibos gaurus, the wild stock of the domesticated gayal, and related to the zebu.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hindi, from Sanskrit gauraḥ; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Hindustani.

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  • For a usage note see banteng.

    March 5, 2008