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Ovine

Ovine \O"vine\ ([=o]"v[imac]n), a. [L. ovinus, fr. ovis sheep: cf. F. ovine.] Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ovine

"pertaining to or of the nature of sheep," 1828, from Latin ovinus, from ovis "sheep," from PIE Related: *owi- "sheep" (see ewe).

Wiktionary
ovine

a. 1 Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep. 2 ''Specifically,'' resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent. n. A sheep.

WordNet
ovine

adj. of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep

Usage examples of "ovine".

She arranged with Ram, the male Ovine, to get good hay and grain and water for the horse, for Seqiro could eat the food of an anchor reality and retain it.

Cat and the resident Ovine neuter, Sheep, he learned as much as he could assimilate about the colony on Planet Yils.

An Ovine neuter was there to guide them to their chamber for the night.

But the Ovine ram and BOvine bull came together before the cube, lowering their heads.

When she had been in this Mode before, an Ovine woman called simply Ewe had bathed her in genuine water and dressed her in a silken robe.

Faculty people spend a lot of time issuing orders, so they are also prone to respond to authority with ovine complacency.

Scottish Academician, the picture was perhaps painted in the Highlands, where there are great opportunities for making ovine studies.

Never before in the course of a truly ovine life had Schmucke uttered such words as these.

He tilted his round head, which was topped by a mass of pale curls, adding to the ovine semblance.

Other troops of ovine spectres had passed in sad array, foreshadowing to the brothers the probable fate of the whole stock of Wandaroona.

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.

His term paper, an optional project on the mutation of angoran ovines, demonstrated an in-depth appreciation of genetic manipulation.

I have incarnated that which I-need to rationalize: Verily-not the ever present portraiture of experience to satisfy the ovine: No obvious allegory of asses-thinking God: No still-life group of empty bottles and old maids commonplaces: Nor the gay-tragedy of song.

Apply yourselves, above all, to the amelioration of the soil, to good manures, to the development of the equine, bovine, ovine, and porcine races.