: a large wild ox (Bos gaurus) of India and southeast Asia with a broad forehead and short thick curved horns
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Examples of gaur in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebIn the Anaimalai Hills, enormous gaur move between tea estates and patches of rain forest.—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022 Standing incongruously in narrow pathways among tea bushes were three gigantic gaur: Indian bison, six feet at the shoulder and weighing more than a ton.—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
Hindi, from Sanskrit gaura; akin to Sanskrit go bull, cow — more at cow
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