Defn: a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; — called also diphenyl oxamide.
OXBANE
Ox"bane`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of
Good Hope.
OXBIRD Ox"bird`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The sanderling. (c) An African weaver bird (Textor alector).
OXBITER
Ox"bit`er, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]
OXBOW
Ox"bow`, n.
Defn: A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.
OXEYE
Ox"eye`, n. Etym: [Ox + eye.]
1. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy. (b) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis). (c) A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.