(n) a battle during the second Punic War (207 BC); Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy
(n) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; ; ; - Bible, Syn. kine, Bos taurus, cows, oxen, Example:so many head of cattle; wait till the cows come home; seven thin and ill-favored kine; a team of oxen
‖n. [ L., akin to Gr. tay^ros, and E. steer. See Steer a young ox. ] 1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [ &taurus_; ] in almanacs. (b) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Zool.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]