KINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kine mean? 

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

1. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen

Context example:

a team of oxen

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

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

Meronyms (parts of "kine"):

beef; boeuf (meat from an adult domestic bovine)

Meronyms (members of "kine"):

calf (young of domestic cattle)

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

ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)

stirk (yearling heifer or bullock)

bullock; steer (castrated bull)

bull (uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle)

cow; moo-cow (female of domestic cattle:)

beef; beef cattle (cattle that are reared for their meat)

Welsh; Welsh Black (a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales)

red poll (hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle)

Africander (tall large-horned humped cattle of South Africa; used for meat or draft)

dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker (cattle that are reared for their milk)

Devon (red dual-purpose cattle of English origin)

grade (a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed)

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

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

herd (a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans)

 Context examples 

The sun was lying low in the west and shooting its level rays across the long sweep of rich green country, glinting on the white-fleeced sheep and throwing long shadows from the red kine who waded knee-deep in the juicy clover.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)