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Bovine Definition And Meaning
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.

Bovine Definition And Meaning

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

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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