Synonyms for bovine
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : boh-vahyn, -vin, -veen |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈboʊ vaɪn, -vɪn, -vin |
Définition of bovine
Origin :- 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.
- noun member of genus bos
- The bovine humanity fitted to the machinery as the ox to the treadmill.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- Plenty of desert hogs, as fat and as round as a ball of bovine butter.
- Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
- To leave them was the bovine manner of saying, "Well, then, take them."
- Extract from : « The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island » by Roger Thompson Finlay
- The limbs of the Gaur have more of the form of the deer than any other of the bovine genus.
- Extract from : « Delineations of the Ox Tribe » by George Vasey
- Picquet, unastonished, gave him a heavy, bovine look of inquiry.
- Extract from : « The Flaming Jewel » by Robert W. Chambers
- How different from anything of the bovine tribe I have yet observed!
- Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
- It is bovine and slow in some respects, but it is never empty.
- Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
- But the Doctor had not calculated upon hunger and bovine obstinacy.
- Extract from : « The Silver Canyon » by George Manville Fenn
- As if in answer, the bovine proprietor, encouraged by the laughter, crept in again.
- Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
- None will touch the meat of the bovine kind, save the outcast Pariah.
- Extract from : « India, Its Life and Thought » by John P. Jones
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