oxen
castrated male bovine, used for work or raised for meat
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Summary
oxen is an animal with specific gender[1]. oxen draws 10,024 Wikipedia views per month (animal with specific gender category, ranking #3 of 13).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: organisms known by a particular common name[3]
- Subclass of: cattle[4], castrated creature[5]
- Commons category: Oxen[6]
- Opposite of: bull[7]
- Unicode character: 🐂[8]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[10], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16]
- Partially coincident with: ox[17]
- This taxon is source of: Ungnöt[18]
- Different from: aurochs[19]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Agriculture[20], WikiProject Mammals[21]
- Taxon known by this common name: cattle[22], Bos taurus[23]
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Influence
Things named for oxen include Wołów[24], a city[25], in Poland[26].
Why It Matters
oxen has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] oxen is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]
Entities named for oxen include Wołów[24], a city[25], in Poland[26].