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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)
Bovine \Bo"vine\, a. [LL. bovinus, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox, cow:
cf. F. bovine. See {Cow}.]
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1. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the genus {Bos}; relating to,
or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine
genus; a bovine antelope.
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2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish
and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
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The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. --W. Black.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) (wn)
bovine
adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
[syn: {bovine}, {bovid}]
2: dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine
apathy"
n 1: any of various members of the genus Bos
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 (moby-thesaurus)
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "bovine":
Boeotian, Brahman, Indian buffalo, asinine, aurochs, beef,
beef cattle, beef-brained, beef-witted, beeves, bison, blockish,
bossy, bovid, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, caprid,
caprine, carabao, cattle, chumpish, cloddish, complacent, cow,
cowish, cowlike, crass, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, deerlike,
dense, dispassionate, dogie, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb,
duncical, duncish, equestrian, equine, even-tempered, fat, goatish,
goatlike, gross, heifer, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, hornless cow,
horsy, impassive, imperturbable, ineducable, inexcitable,
inirritable, kine, klutzy, leppy, lumpish, maverick, milch cow,
milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, mulish, musk-ox,
neat, oafish, opaque, ovine, ox, oxen, patient, piggish, ruminant,
self-complacent, self-content, self-contented, self-satisfied,
sheepish, sheeplike, smug, sottish, steady, steer, stirk, stoic,
stolid, stot, stupid, swinish, thick, undisturbable, unflappable,
ungulate, unirritable, unnervous, unpassionate, unteachable,
wisent, wrongheaded, yak, yearling, zebu
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