Definitions

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

  • noun A wild ox (Bos javanicus) of Southeast Asia, having a chestnut coat in the female and a brownish-black coat in the male, with white on the lower legs and rump, and long, curved horns in the male.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A species of ox, Bos banteng or B. sondaicus, a local race in the Malay archipelago.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

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  • noun A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula.

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

  • noun wild ox of the Malay Archipelago

Etymologies

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

[Malay.]

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From Malay banteng.

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  • "...they met in the buffalo-market. For a while they talked about the animals' wild relations, the banteng and the gaur..."

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 241

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