1. bovine - Noun
2. bovine - Adjective
3. bovine - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. Ogden Nash
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir. Revilo P. Oliver
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them. J. B. Priestley
There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group. A certain greedy placidity about them. Us, rather. In port we automatically become Peregrinator americanusy Die Lumpenamerikaner. The Ugly Ones. David Foster Wallace
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking. Christopher Paolini
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world. John E. Walker