ox
noun
[ ɒks ]
• a castrated bull used as a draught animal.
• "laden wagons pulled by lowing oxen travel down to the coast"
Origin:
Old English oxa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch os and German Ochse, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ukṣán ‘bull’.
ox-
combining form
• variant spelling of oxy-2 reduced before a vowel (as in oxazole ).
oxy-
combining form
• representing oxygen.
