BOVINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bovine mean? 

• BOVINE (noun)
  The noun BOVINE has 1 sense:

1. any of various members of the genus Bos

  Familiarity information: BOVINE used as a noun is very rare.

• BOVINE (adjective)
  The adjective BOVINE has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

2. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox

  Familiarity information: BOVINE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOVINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various members of the genus Bos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bovine" is a kind of...):

bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bovine"):

ox; wild ox (any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos)

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

Bos indicus; Brahma; Brahman; Brahmin (any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding)

Holonyms ("bovine" is a member of...):

Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

• BOVINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

bovid; bovine

Pertainym:

genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox

Context example:

showed a bovine apathy

Similar:

dull (lacking in liveliness or animation)

 Context examples 

Cattle can get a disease related to CJD called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease."

(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Domesticated bovine animals usually kept on a farm or ranch and used for the production of meat or dairy products or for heavy labor.

(Cow, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

C. bovis is commensal to the bovine udder, but can be pathogenic in bovine and other species, including humans.

(Corynebacterium bovis, NCI Thesaurus)

Hyperimmune bovine colostrum is harvested during the first days after calving from cows that have been inoculated repeatedly with specific pathogens during pregnancy.

(Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum, NCI Thesaurus)

These are usually from cows (bovine) but are also from goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo.

(Dairy Product, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The sealer protein solution contains clottable human fibrinogen and bovine aprotinin, a fibrinolysis inhibitor; the thrombin solution contains human thrombin and calcium chloride.

(Fibrin sealant, NCI Thesaurus)

E. pseudoavium was isolated from bovine mastitis, but human infections are very rare.

(Enterococcus pseudoavium, NCI Thesaurus)

Bovine Leukemia Virus is the type species.

(Deltaretrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

C. acetobutylicum is found commonly in soil, lake sediment, well water, and bovine, canine, and human feces.

(Clostridium acetobutylicum, NCI Thesaurus)