指的是雄性的牛。
一、音标：
英 [ɒks]、美 [ɑːks]。
二、近义词：
n.
Cattle bull.
三、单词辨析：
牛。
1. Buffalo：指水牛，在美国指野牛。
2. Cow：指任何品种的成年母牛或乳用的乳牛。
3. Bull：指未经阉割，通常用于配种的公牛，也指西班牙或美洲经专门饲料用作斗牛表演的公牛。引申指彪形大汉。
4. Ox：泛指野生或驯养的牛类，系动物学的用词，通称，也指公牛。
四、短语搭配;
1、musk ox
麝牛。
2、ox horn
牛角。
双语例句：
1、The Heifer and the Ox A HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor.
小母牛与公牛小母牛看见公牛套着犁具在辛苦地干活，十分可怜他那被迫劳役的悲惨命运。
2、The head of the ox was designed with a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner’s screams were converted into sounds like the bellowing of an infuriated bull.
牛头的部分是十分复杂的管道和弯道,受刑人的尖叫会被转变为类似被激怒的公牛死后的声音.
3、Eight feet tall or maybe taller, with legs as thick around as trees, he had a chest worthy of a plow horse and shoulders that would not disgrace an ox.
身长八尺甚至更高，腿像树一样粗，胸膛健壮配得上犁马，肩膀有力媲美于公牛。
4、Agate was especially valued during medieval times when one of the more outlandish uses was to bind an Agate to each horn of an ox to ensure a good harvest.
到了中世纪，人们将玛瑙系在牛角上以乞求好的收成，这一奇特的习俗使玛瑙的价值大增。
