[G., var. of auerochs AUROCHS. Cf. URE-OX.] (See quots.)
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 54/2. An animal peculiar to Lithuania is the urochs, or bison.
1864. J. Hunt, trans. Vogt’s Lect. Man, xii. 335. The bones found belonged to … the now extinct ‘urochs’ (Bos primigenius);… the Lithuanian Bison, or Auerochs (Bos urus, or Bison Europæus) … is a distinct species.
1881. Nature, XXIII. 296. Post-tertiary animals (such as mammoth, rhinoceros, urochs).
