Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a ruminant mammal of the bovid subfamily Bovinae, especially one in the genus Bos, such as a cow, ox, or buffalo.
- adjective Sluggish, dull, and stolid.
- noun An animal of the subfamily Bovinae, especially one of the genus Bos.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or belonging to oxen, or specifically to the Bovinæ; boviform.
- Ox-like; stolid; inert; dull.
- noun One of the Bovinæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike.
- adjective Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Of or pertaining to
cattle . - adjective not comparable Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including
cows ,buffalo , andbison . - adjective
Sluggish ,dull ,slow-witted . - noun An animal of the
family Bovidae , includingcattle ,buffaloes andbison .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
- noun any of various members of the genus Bos
- adjective of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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).
Mad-cow Disease 2010
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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!
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Dr. Essey, who had training in bovine tuberculosis epidemiology, developed a specialty in identifying, tracing and eradicating tuberculosis from cattle and elk herds.
Mitchell A. Essey, USDA veterinarian Post 2010
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Pilotshark says: but the real one is a masters in bovine scatolgy
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It had not been discovered because it is not found in bovine species in nature.
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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"Ox are cheap and easy to train but they're essentially bovine, which is to say, smart but slow," he said.
The Seattle Times 2011
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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.’ 2010
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Also, it doesn’t help that our milk products contain bovine growth hormones and anti-biotics and are really not fit for consumption.
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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.
Jacqui Smith is a cunt. FIDO The Dog 2009
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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 2008
dbekeny commented on the word bovine
OZ'S VOICE
You billowing bale of bovine fodder!
June 10, 2010