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bovine
[ boh-vahyn, -vin, -veen ]
adjective
- of or relating to the subfamily Bovinae, which includes cattle, buffalo, and kudus.
- oxlike; cowlike.
- stolid; dull.
noun
- a bovine animal.
bovine
/ ˈbəʊvaɪn /
adjective
- of, relating to, or belonging to the Bovini (cattle), a bovid tribe including domestic cattle
- (of people) dull; sluggish; stolid
noun
- any animal belonging to the Bovini
bovine
/ bō′vīn′ /
- Characteristic of or resembling cows or cattle.
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Derived Forms
- ˈbovinely, adverb
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Other Words From
- bovine·ly adverb
- bo·vin·i·ty [boh-, vin, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bovine1
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Example Sentences
He sat before a wall full of badges, in a big swivel chair, his bovine features set in mistrustful concentration.
The urge to move your marine bovine sandy pollock cosmopolitan hotels will be strong.
Those cells, however, were then grown using fetal bovine serum, an unappetizing by-product of the slaughter of pregnant cattle.
This miniaturized gym routine enabled the scientists to grow usable quantities of bovine muscle—otherwise known as beef.
Host Joe Rogan gleefully watches the contestants gag and struggle through the bovine brains until one young man quits altogether.
She was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.
Later, while we three cast-aways drifted with the bovine tide, he spoke to Piegan Smith.
Bill Barry's statement that the cru-colored bovine was "lively" and could outrun his sorrel mare was, at least founded upon fact.
The other man was negligible—a bovine lump of flesh without personality—born to hew wood and draw water for men of enterprise.
He realized that the bovine belonged to the gentle sex, and anything was to be expected.
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