Urus

Urus (Bos taurus), the Latin name for the wild ox, which in the time of Julius Cæsar (see Bell. Gall. vi. 28) was abundant in European forests. The same animal seems to have been called Aurochs by the Germans, and was the ancestor of the European domesticated cattle, and probably also of the wild cattle preserved at Chillingham and some other British parks. See Storer, Wild Cattle of Great Britain (1879).