Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hybrid, the result of a cross between the male of the water buffalo and the female of the domesticated yak. The dzo are kept for beasts of burden and for the milk yielded by the cows.
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- noun A male
hybrid of ayak and adomesticated cow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is a Tibetan animal called a dzo, which is the male mixed offspring of a yak and a cow.
General Explanation of Seven-Point Attitude-Training ��� Part Two: Points Five and Six 1999
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A dzo is a very large animal – a cross between a yak and a cow – so in other words, we must not put the blame on others for things that we might have done ourselves.
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Forget about snagging Mayfair in Monopoly or finally getting to play dzo in Scrabble.
Terrorism 2008
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Ri tea u vhona uri ri dikwamanya na vhathu tshifhinga tshothe uri ri kone u shumana na thodea dzavho na u vha kuvhanganya u vha mmbi ya mvusuludzo na mvelaphanda ye ra amba ngayo tshifhingani tsha khetho dzo fhiraho.
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Zwo vha zwi nyanyulaho u vhona u shela mulenzhe he ha vha hu ngomu nga vharumelwa kha nyambedzano dzo sumbedzaho uri vhoiwe, comrades, no vhala mabambiri a nyambedzano.
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Nga nnda ha u dzula na u thetshelesa mivhigo na zwi ambwaho kha dzikhomishini dzo fhambanaho, nne, u fana na minwe mirado ya Khorotshitumbe ya Lushaka, ndo kona u dalela na u thetshelsa zwi ambwaho kha dzinwe dzikhomishini.
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Dzi amba nga khaedu dzo sedzanaho na vhathu vhashu - khaedu dza tsiku, thogeo ya mishumo, mvelamurahu, thogeo ya mavu, malwadze, thogeo ya ndivho, vhutshinyi, na zwinwe.
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In other words, we are the dzo from all this training that we are doing.
General Explanation of Seven-Point Attitude-Training ��� Part Two: Points Five and Six 1999
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It is completely determined by its "metric" property: Let dxo, dyo, dzo, dto be the coordinate differences of two infinitesimally near points (events); then
Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950
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Here and elsewhere the animal raised varies widely-the llama and vicuna in Peru, which thrive best at 10,000 to 13,000 feet elevation, and multiply rapidly on the _ichu_ or coarse grass which clothes the slopes of the higher Andes up to snow line; sheep, goats, yaks and herds of dzo, a useful hybrid between yak and cow, in the highland districts of Sze Chuan.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
sonofgroucho commented on the word dzo
What a dinky little word.
October 9, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word dzo
A sort of Tibetan beefalo.
January 4, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word dzo
Is that dzo?
January 4, 2012