The word 'oxen' is correct and widely used in written English.
It is the plural form of 'ox', which refers to a large domesticated bovine animal commonly used for plowing or as a source of meat and dairy products. One can use 'oxen' when referring to more than one of these animals. For example: - The farmer's team of oxen pulled the heavy plow through the fields. - A group of oxen grazed peacefully in the pasture. - The village butcher specialized in selling high-quality beef from his herd of oxen.
In all cases of distinguishing oxen from non-oxen, [there are] two.
If we distinguish oxen from non-oxen, then we have a case in which any one thing must either be "this" (an ox) or "that" (a non-ox).
Stating a fact about the world would have been seen as a matter of identifying a sameness or difference, in one of four (or more) senses of "sameness".[16] "White horses are horses" would be interpreted as in effect claiming that white horses and horses are "the same," and "Oxen are not horses" as claiming that oxen and horses are "different".
On the ascent from the small town of Trujillo to Venezuela's mountain capital of Mérida, lush tropical scenery dotted with coffee plantations, sugar cane and banana palms gave way to steeply inclined fields still ploughed by oxen, beyond which came the bleak high moorlands or páramos.
Farmers rediscovered sustainable techniques of intercropping and replacing tractors with oxen.
Prospectors who made their way overland went "at the pace of the slowest oxen [pulling their wagons], no more than two miles [3.2km] per hour".
By the time they reached the next desert, the oxen died of thirst.
The government has had to extend its deadline for the surrender of weapons, because it needs more time to deliver the tools, oxen and small loans it has promised to those who have already handed in their guns.
They may even rediscover the spirit of pioneers such as August Schuckman, the current governor's great-grandfather the man who came to California in pursuit of his life dream but had to brave the unforgreat-grandfather the his wagon trek, losing oxen, horses and manes along the who.
In one year during Elizabeth I's reign, according to records at Hampton Court, the royal kitchens roasted 1,240 oxen, 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 760 calves, 1,870 pigs and 53 wild boar.The scale was more modest but the principles the same for the middle class.
In the Middle Ages plague added to the demand for medicinal spices; a German price table from the 14th century sets the value of a pound of nutmeg at seven fat oxen.
