Bovine meaning

bō'vīn', -vēn'
The definition of bovine is like an ox or cow, or slow or dull.

An example of something bovine is a bovine statue, a statue of a cow.

An example of something bovine is a bovine personality, a boring person.

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Bovine is defined as an animal in the Bovinae subfamily.

An example of a bovine is a cow, ox or buffalo.

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Of, relating to, or resembling a ruminant mammal of the bovid subfamily Bovinae, such as a cow, ox, or buffalo, especially one in the genus Bos.
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Sluggish, dull, and stolid.
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An animal of the subfamily Bovinae, especially one of the genus Bos.
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Of, relating to, or resembling a ruminant mammal of the bovid subfamily Bovinae, such as a cow, ox, or buffalo, especially one in the genus Bos.
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Sluggish, dull, and stolid.
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An animal of the subfamily Bovinae, especially one of the genus Bos.
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Of an ox.
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Having oxlike qualities; thought of as oxlike; slow, dull, stupid, stolid, etc.
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Any similar bovid.
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Relating to or resembling a ruminant mammal of the bovid subfamily Bovinae, such as a cow, ox, or buffalo, especially one in the genus Bos.
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An animal of the subfamily Bovinae, especially one of the genus Bos.
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Characteristic of or resembling cows or cattle.
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(not comparable) Of or pertaining to cattle.
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(not comparable) Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including cows, buffalo, and bison.
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An animal of the tribe Bovini, including cattle, buffaloes and bison.
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Any of a genus (Bos) of bovid ruminants.
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Origin of bovine

  • Late Latin bovīnus from Latin bōs bov- cow gwou- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Late Latin bovīnus from Latin bōs bov- cow gwou- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin bovīnus, from bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
    From Wiktionary

Bovine Sentence Examples

  • This Orphic fast from meat was only broken by an annual sacramental banquet, originally, perhaps, of human, but later of raw bovine flesh.

  • OX, strictly speaking, the Saxon name for the males of domesticated cattle (Bos taurus), but in a zoological sense employed so as to include not only the extinct wild ox of Europe but likewise bovine animals of every description, that is to say true oxen, bison and buffaloes.

  • Methane is released into the atmosphere from bovine flatulence, rice paddies, and bacteria in bogs.

  • In another mini-game, you spin Bessie, a cow, above your head by literally twirling the Wii Remote, launching the bovine wonder as far as you can by letting go (pressing A or B on the Wii-mote).

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