Meaning of BOVINE
| Pronunciation: | | 'bowvIn
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- [n] any of various members of the genus Bos
- [adj] dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
- [adj] of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
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| | Synonyms: | | bovid, dull |
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| | See Also: | | Bos, Bos indicus, Bos taurus, bovid, Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin, cattle, cows, genus Bos, kine, ox, oxen, wild ox | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bo"vine\, a. [LL. bovinus, fr.L. bos, bovis, ox, cow:
cf. F. bovine. See {Cow}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the genus {Bos}; relating
to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine
genus; a bovine antelope.
2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish
and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. --W. Black.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Relating to, affecting, resembling or derived from a cow or bull. |
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| | Related Terms: | | asinine, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beef-brained, beef-witted, beeves, bison, blockish, Boeotian, bossy, bovid, bovine animal, Brahman, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, caprid, caprine, carabao, cattle, chumpish, cloddish, complacent, cow, cowish, cowlike, crass, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, deerlike, dense, dispassionate, dogie, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, equestrian, equine, even-tempered, fat, goatish, goatlike, gross, heifer, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, hornless cow, horsy, impassive, imperturbable, Indian buffalo, ineducable, inexcitable, inirritable, kine, klutzy, leppy, lumpish, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, mulish, musk-ox, neat, oafish, opaque, ovine, ox, oxen, patient, piggish, ruminant, self-complacent, self-content, self-contented, self-satisfied, sheepish, sheeplike, smug, sottish, steady, steer, stirk, stoic, stolid, stot, stupid, swinish, thick, undisturbable, unflappable, ungulate, unirritable, unnervous, unpassionate, unteachable, wisent, wrongheaded, yak, yearling, zebu |
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