Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a ruminant mammal of the genus Bos, such as an ox, cow, or buffalo.
- adj. Sluggish, dull, and stolid.
- n. An animal of the genus Bos.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining or belonging to oxen, or specifically to the Bovinæ; boviform.
- Ox-like; stolid; inert; dull.
- n. One of the Bovinæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. not comparable Of or pertaining to cattle.
- adj. not comparable Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including cows, buffalo, and bison.
- adj. Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.
- n. An animal of the family Bovidae, including cattle, buffaloes and bison.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike.
- adj. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
- n. any of various members of the genus Bos
- adj. of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
Etymologies
- From Latin bovīnus, from bōs ("ox"). Cognate to beef. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin bovīnus, from Latin bōs, bov-, cow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Pilotshark says: but the real one is a masters in bovine scatolgy”
“January 13th, 2010 at 1: 31 pm just the bleepn facts says: bovine is always counting down, because she only knows how to count to 5 and it takes her an hour to figure out how to do it backwards!”
“Dr. Essey, who had training in bovine tuberculosis epidemiology, developed a specialty in identifying, tracing and eradicating tuberculosis from cattle and elk herds.”
“Many proteins are excluded from the bovine fetal circulation by these 6 layers (for example, bovine fetal blood contains 1/500th of the antibodies found in bovine maternal blood).”
“It had not been discovered because it is not found in bovine species in nature.”
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
“Ox are cheap and easy to train but they're essentially bovine, which is to say, smart but slow," he said.”
“It’s a work in progress, and bovine is one of the “tools” involved …;)”
Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’
“Also, it doesn’t help that our milk products contain bovine growth hormones and anti-biotics and are really not fit for consumption.”
“More calling the bovine faced, kebab munching, illiberal, fat arsed, wank film claiming, slack jawed inbred, large uddered, not sure where she bloody lives, the Rt Hon.”
“Is recombinant bovine somatotropin rBST, more commonly called bovine growth hormone, or BGH on its way out?”
Growth Hormone’s Uncertain Future - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bovine’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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gre
municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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AGRI - animal husbandry
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the animal husbandry sector.
bovine animals, beef labelling, animal husbandry, animal keeper, ear tag, electric fence, kid meat, wean off, battery, beekeeping, laying hen, pig meat and 140 more...
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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Arbitrary words
A young boy's quest to find a paradigm of "the perfect word."
preponderating, extol, antiquated, aphorism, corollary, blithe, acclivity, abnegate, inasmuch as, averred, cessation, bilious and 7 more...
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TECH - food processing
fillet, cereal, riser, puree, mixer, absorbent material, active agent, additive, animal fat, animal product, antibacterial, antifungal and 81 more...
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Favorite adjectives
ovine, piscine, ursine, lupine, murine, leonine, elephantine, porcine, aquiline, saccharine, serpentine, equine and 3 more...
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Animal kings
crocodilian, lagomorph, ovine, bovine, lupine, minatory, arthropod, zoömimetic, nag, pronk, entomology, buffalo and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bovine.
dbekeny
OZ'S VOICE
You billowing bale of bovine fodder!
Jun 10, 2010