urus

urus is a 4-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur.
2. noun. large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle

   Synonyms: aurochs

Synonyms

aurochs

Common word forms

uru, uruses

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for URUS lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.