Definitions for uruses

uruses u·rus

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

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

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in uruses (erssuu).

Definitions for uruses

noun

  1. the aurochs.

Origin of uruses

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 uruses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for uruses
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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