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Noun: cox  kóks
  1. The helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew
    "The cox's commands guided the rowing team to victory";
    - coxswain
Verb: cox  kóks
  1. Act as the coxswain, in a boat race
    "She coxed the university rowing team to victory"
Noun: Cox  kóks
  1. Either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin
    "Cox inhibitors are commonly used as pain relievers";
    - cyclooxygenase
     
  2. A yellow Pippin with distinctive flavour
    - Cox's Orange Pippin [UK]
     
  3. [Brit] Variety of eating apple

Sounds like: cocks, Cox

Derived forms: coxing, Coxes, coxes, coxed

Type of: be, enzyme, follow, Pippin, steerer

Encyclopedia: Cox, Michael