Crossword clues for bovine
bovine
- There's one at the beginning of each of this puzzle's four theme entries
- Like oxen
- Cow, say
- Bunyan's Babe, e.g
- Angus, e.g
- There's one at the beginning of each theme entry
- Stock-related, in a way
- Some are bullheaded, others smell like an ox
- Related to cows
- Ox, say
- Like some livestock
- Like Elsie
- Like cattle
- Like bison and buffalo
- Elsie or Ferdinand
- Bossy type
- Big ox, say
- (Like a) yak, for example
- Cowlike
- Thickheaded
- Jersey, e.g.
- Any of various members of the genus Bos
- Stolid
- Buffalo, e.g.
- Bunyan's Babe, e.g.
- Sluggish
- Cow, say, originally bleating like sheep?
- Of cows
- Relating to cattle
- Bachelor relating to sheep — and to cattle?
- Of cattle
- Stock classification
- Like an ox
- Buffalo, e.g
- Yak, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bovine \Bo"vine\, a. [LL. bovinus, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox, cow: cf. F. bovine. See Cow.]
(Zo["o]l.) 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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Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
The bovine gaze of gaping rustics.
--W. Black.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from French bovin (14c.), from Late Latin bovinus, from Latin bos (genitive bovis) "ox, cow," from PIE *gwous- (see cow (n.)). Figurative sense of "inert and stupid" is from 1855.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context not comparable English) Of or pertaining to cattle. 2 (context not comparable English) Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including cows, buffalo, and bison. 3 sluggish, dull, slow-witted. n. An animal of the tribe ''Bovini'', including cattle, buffaloes and bison.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) [syn: bovid]
dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
n. any of various members of the genus Bos
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "bovine".
You know of course that it is a common measure of prophylaxis to shoot a cow with the aftosa and that a reasonable cow would not object to this procedure if that cow had not been indoctrinated with the proper feelings of duty toward the bovine community at large.
Mad Cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but even more rare.
Reynolds had mentioned it in his letter: bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or more commonly, mad cow disease.
An old man was mucking out the byre and as the rich bovine smell drifted across, one of my companions wrinkled his nose.
But the Ovine ram and Bovine bull came together before the cube, lowering their heads.
On the other hand, the representatives of the ovine and bovine races were to be counted by tens of thousands.
Australia, though so rich in this respect, does not set a better spread table before her ovine and bovine pensioners.
Mixed with them were herds of brilliant yellow and red hartebeest, purple sassaby, and the great bovine eland, striped and maned and majestic.
For years past Miss Gardiner has been famous as a raiser of stock, equine and bovine, but unfortunately she has been most frequently before the public as the strong assertor of territorial rights.
This new protein bears a striking similarity to the protein that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
DNA from scratch, and re-introduce it into unmodified bovine pla-cental cell lines.
There are some elaborate techniques we could use, to try to repair the DNA-but it will probably be easier to synthesize fresh DNA from scratch, and re-introduce it into unmodified bovine pla-cental cell lines.
The soft grunt was still there and her eyes had begun to retreat into her head -the worst sign of all in bovines.
The little red people interpreted their sullen bovine glares as subservience only, but all the while the Archaea were looking at them thinking, You cannibals, we are going to get you some day.
The town is pervaded by a bovine smell, sweet to the nostrils of those who have travelled long in the beefless lands of the people of the forest.