Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sheep; sheeplike.
- n. An ovine animal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sheep-like; oviform; of or pertaining to the Ovinæ or to sheep.
- n. A member of the Ovinæ; a sheep.
- n. A form of cerebrin found in the yolk of eggs.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.
- adj. Specifically, resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent.
- n. A sheep.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep
Etymologies
- Late Latin ovīnus, from Latin ovis, sheep; see owi- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Estes JM, Spencer EM, Longaker MT, Adzick NS: Insulin-like growth factor-II in ovine wound fluid: Developmental regulation.”
“I note also that your spell-checker great idea btw objects to 'ovine' - why?”
“The ovine crime wave began, insurance company and farm union officials say, after global food prices started jumping again.”
The Washington Post: Bull market? No, sheep are the newest commodity.
“Living proof that RNC prominence is fading and the ovine followers are dwindling in number since savvy people are beginning to see the light instead of being allowed to be smitten by blind fanaticism.”
“Well, it looks like I will be writing an article for a farm magazine, possibly 'Sheep!' magazine which is my favorite ovine* magazine.”
“His slightly ovine little face is only saved from total oblivion by the large pale ears on which the helmet rests.”
“I could only assume that it was predating some ovine parasites and it made me wonder whether this complimentary veterinarian service had ever been entered in the farmer's logbook of magpie crimes and misdemeanours.”
“Crofab is a mixture of Fab fragments produced by a sheep (ovine) where as ACP is derived from a horse (equine).”
“He happened to be visiting his older brother, Jakub, who was living at the old sheep camp and tending the Hetmanski flock through the summer; she happened to be running an errand for the Fates and her father to drop off a bottle of his special herbal ovine fertility concoction.”
Excerpt: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
“Ordinarily, of course, a maiden meeting with a bachelor alone - and over the matter of ovine procreation no less - would be considered verboten or nilzya or whatever the Polish equivalent was before the Nazis and the Soviets routed the language and appropriated all the words for forbiddenness.”
Excerpt: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ovine’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 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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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
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sheep and goats
sheep and more sheep and some
slang for sheep,films that feature sheep ,have you heard of sheeple?
and goatsammon, ancon, argali, bharal, burrel, burrell, burhel, burrhel, bighorn, billy, blackface, broadtail and 144 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Fibers & Fabrics
zibeline, havelock, pashmina, qiviut, sartorial, noil, balbriggan, fichu, bombazine, cambric, placket, gabardine and 28 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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tatterdemalion's list
chrysalis, colloquy, peroration, syncretism, dickering, gamelan, dictatress, adventurism, untenable, presumption of fa..., lovelorn, bawdily and 47 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...
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animals strike curious poses
the asethetic of an animal... animal adjectives
corvine, pavonine, equine, bovine, musteline, myrmecine, ursine, apic, ranine, vulpine, vespine, pteropine and 20 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
Tweets
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emily_morine Sheep-like. Dec 8, 2006