Definitions for urus

urus u·rus

Spelling: [yoo r-uh s]
IPA: /ˈyʊər əs/

Urus is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in urus (rsuu).

Definitions for urus

noun

  1. the aurochs.

Origin of urus

1595-1605; Latin ūrus a kind of wild ox (cognate with Greek oûros) Germanic; compare Old English, Old High German ūr, Old Norse ūrr

Examples for urus

Some confusion has arisen as to the description and the names of the urus and the Bison.

The gigantic, unwieldy ox, the urus of Caesar, has been extinct since Roman times.

Scarabus with hawk-headed gryphon, having before in the urus and the nabla or guitar, hieroglyphic of good.

It is thought by some that the Chillingham cattle are descendants of the urus.

Will not also many of the urus be slain in the combat, and thus benefit our cause?

They are the suns disk, the ostrich feather, the urus, and the guitar nablium.

The asp was worshipped by the Egyptians under the name of urus.

For what should that slave talk to us of treating with the urus?

For information concerning the wild cattle, see The urus, p. 145.

So the General of the urus thinks we are prepared to attack him, does he?

Word Value for urus
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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