Zebu (Noun)
Meaning
Domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Farmers in the Indian village rely on zebu as the primary source of draft power for their agriculture needs.
- A local herdsman breeds hybrid cattle from Bos taurus crossed with local Indian zebu cattle in several years before these give proper maturity milk composition suited farming sustenance households farm locations feed needs as grown animals.
- The nomads rode into town on yoked zebu, ready to trade their camels and other livestock for food, water, and textiles.
- In India, many villages typically start for breeding research cattle zebu breeding livestock small breed produce farm or related varieties milk less to very quickly growth and high standard.
- Working oxen that thrive include red or grey zebu from eastern highland zones in Szechwan, China.