bovine

Speech parts

1. bovine - Noun

2. bovine - Adjective

3. bovine - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

buffalo bullock bison antelope taurus heifer daft gnu deer bull cow zoological porcine slow wooden
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Antonyms

intellectual sharp quick accomplished bright rational
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Hypernyms

bovid

Hyponyms

brahma brahman brahmin bison cow cattle

Phrases with the word

bovine growth hormone bovine animals female bovine bovine animal bovine excrement bovine respiratory disease

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

bovidomorph boviform Bovinae bovine animal bovine animals bovine being