About The Word Bovine
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Bovine
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What's The Definition Of Bovine?
[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) Synonyms | Synonyms for Bovine: bovid | dull Related Terms | Find terms related to Bovine: 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 See Also | Bos | Bos indicus | Bos taurus | bovid | Brahma | Brahman | Brahmin | cattle | cows | genus Bos | kine | ox | oxen | wild ox Bovine In Webster's Dictionary \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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