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  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the order Artiodactyla — the bovids or cattle.

Etymologies

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Bos +‎ -idae

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Examples

  • A very eminent authority, however, Professor Flower, is in favour of placing the musk-deer with the Cervidae, and he instances the absence of horns as in favour of this opinion, for in none of the Bovidae are the males hornless.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Geographical variation in the bushbuck of eastern Africa (Tragelaphus scriptus; Bovidae).

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Geographical variation in the bushbuck of eastern Africa (Tragelaphus scriptus; Bovidae).

    The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006

  • The aurochs Bos primigenius, the wild ancestor of modern cattle, is now extinct, but the American bison also called the plains buffalo, which belongs to the same Bovidae family, displays enormous sexual dimorphism.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • With its unique silhouette of a wild, North American member of the Bovidae.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • There are many different types of horn; horns of Bovidae, rhinoceros, antelope and giraffe, as well as the substance of which the beaks of birds, and the claws and hooves of many animals, are made.

    Chapter 3 1988

  • * A heavily built, Southeast Asian hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae, the takin lives in small herds in the mountains, often above timberline.

    Chapter 8 1983

  • The sweat glands and hair follicles of different species of Bovidae.

    Chapter 9 1983

  • Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • Baléri diseases, which are widespread among the Bovidae, camels and horses of the Upper Niger.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech 1967

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