Bibos

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Bibos - wild ox

genus Bibos

mammal genus - a genus of mammals

Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats

wild ox, ox - any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos

Asian wild ox - genus of Asiatic wild oxen

Bibos gaurus, gaur - wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India

Bibos frontalis, gayal, mithan - ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur

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I heard him a little while afterwards, through the floor here, humming like the wind, the only song he knows-- about Bibo, and old Charon, and Bibo being drunk when he died, or something or other.

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Bibos is also different in having flattened horn-cores at their bases (Pilgrim, 1939, 1947; Hooijer, 1958).