banteng

American  

[ban-teng] / ˈbæn tɛŋ /

Also banting

noun

• bantengs,
  plural
• banting
  plural

1. a wild ox, Bos banteng (javanicus ), of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, resembling the domestic cow: now greatly reduced in number.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bantengs
  plural
• banting
  plural

Etymology

Origin of banteng

< Indonesian Malay banténg < Javanese banṭéng

Example Sentences

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Three other species have been cloned for conservation: a Przewalski’s horse named Kurt, and two types of Southeast Asian cattle under threat, the gaur and the banteng.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 11, 2022

Since the 40,000-year-old flowstone covers the banteng image, the artwork must be older than that — and thus the oldest known figurative art on the planet.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018

That drawing depicts a four-legged animal that Dr. Aubert suspected was a species of wild cattle called a banteng.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018

Zoos treat cloned males, which can pass along only nuclear DNA to future generations, as valuable “bridges” of pure banteng DNA to the banteng gene pool.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2014

We saw plenty of the fine race of domestic cattle descended from the Bos banteng of Java, driven by half naked boys, or tethered in pasture-grounds.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace

But cloned female bantengs, with their baggage of cow mitochondrial DNA ready to be passed to their offspring, are deemed valueless hybrids.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2014

The first occasion, in 1919, was to restrict debate on the Treaty of Versailles; the second, in 1926, on the World Court debate; the third, last week, on the McFadden-Pepper branching banting bill debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other day I heard a woman say that she had got to begin banting.

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

In case of persons troubled with an excess of fat, the bath must be accompanied by massage, banting, and a liberal indulgence in outdoor exercise.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty

The banting is a trading vessel, of a larger class, having two masts, with upright sails like the former, rising at the stem and stern, and somewhat resembling a Chinese junk, excepting in its size.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

She confessed to banting, but drew the line at anything more exhausting.

From A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon