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# oxen

«oxen» in Mova's school dictionary: **the word for more than one ox: big strong farm animals…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun plural (ox, oxen)

### meaning for a pupil

Oxen is the word for more than one ox: big strong farm animals used to pull carts and ploughs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: animals counted, often in old problems with legs, feed or pairs; a «yoke» of oxen is 2. In history: oxen pulled covered wagons on the Oregon Trail and ploughs on farms. In stories: oxen working in the fields.

### examples

- The farmer has 6 oxen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x1)
- Each pair of oxen pulls a plough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x2)
- How many legs do 5 oxen have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x3)
- The oxen eat 100 pounds of hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x4)
- Oxen pulled the covered wagons west. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x5)
- A yoke joins two oxen together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x6)
- The oxen rested in the shade after work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x7)
- In some countries, oxen still plough the fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x8)
- He was driving a herd of cows and oxen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/#x9)

### note

Plural of ox; a thing counted. Hidden number: 4 legs each; a «pair» or «yoke» of oxen = 2. Trap: count oxen, not pairs, unless the problem says pairs. Oxen is an old plural with «-en», like children; never say «oxens».

### In the corpora

- [Musk oxen form a ring facing outwards, with calves in the middle, so wolves meet only a wall of horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/17/)
- [When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/4/)
- [And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.568/)
- [And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.253/)
- [Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.254/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oxen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.