bovine
UK/ˈbəʊ.vaɪn//ˈboʊˌvaɪn/
bovine adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
Adjective
bovine (comparative more bovine, superlative most bovine)
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
- Belonging to the subfamily Bovinae.
- Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.
- They had been selected and arranged with a dull, bovine indifference to any meaning that any of them might have.1988 October 10, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 69
- For reasons which are really a matter for a trainee psychoanalyst, who plays James Bond is a big thing for Spencer. To this end, he has unleashed a series of thoughts so bovine that I’ll just give you one for a little flavour.2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian
Noun
bovine (plural bovines)
bovine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
bovine in Hindi
- of, relating to or resembling cattle
- गोजातीय gojātīya, पशुवत paśuvat, गोरूप gorūp
- sluggish, dull, slow-witted
- मन्दबुद्धि mandabuddhi
- animal like cattle, buffalo, bison
- गोरू gorū
bovine in Tamil
- மாட்டுக்குரிய, மாடு சார்ந்த, ஆவின, கோவர்க்கம், மாட்டினம், உயிரியல் வகைப்பாட்டின் படி
bovine in Marathi
- of, relating to or resembling cattle
- गोजातीय gojātīy, गोकुलीय gokulīy
bovine in Bengali
- গরু সংক্রান্ত, গরুর মতো ধীরস্থির
More languagesFewer languages
- bovine in Malayalam
- പശുതുല്യം, പശുവിനെപ്പോലെയുള്ള, കന്നിനെപ്പോലെയുള്ള, കാളയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച
- bovine in Gujarati
- બોવાઇન
- bovine in Sanskrit
- गोरूप gorūpá
- bovine in Nepali
- बोवाइन, बोविन
- bovine in Malay
- lembu, kelembuan, bovin
Examples of bovine in a sentence
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.
- The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.
- Homologs of nifH were also present in human oral and bovine ruminal treponemes.
Synonyms of bovine
Forms of bovine
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more bovine |
| superlative | most bovine |
| Noun | |
| plural | bovines |
Origin of bovine
PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
Words formed from bovine
- acute bovine pulmonary emphysema
- antibovine
- bibovine
- bovine acetonaemia
- bovine acetonemia
- bovine achondroplasia
- bovine adenovirus type 3 proteinase
- bovine adenovirus type 7 proteinase
- Bovine alphaherpesvirus 1
- Bovine alphaherpesvirus 2
- Bovine alphaherpesvirus 5
- bovine antitoxin
- Bovine atadenovirus D
- bovine babesiosis
- bovine bingo
- bovine borreliosis
- bovine brucellosis
- bovine cancer eye
- bovine cartilage
- bovine colloid
- bovine colostrum
- bovine congenital ataxia
- Bovine coronavirus
- Bovine cyclovirus
- bovine diarrhea virus
- bovine diarrhoea virus
- bovine encephalitis
- bovine encephalomyelitis
- bovine enterovirus
- bovine ephemeral fever
- bovine epizootic fever
- bovine face
- bovine farcy
- Bovine fever ephemerovirus
- Bovine foamy virus
- bovine foot rot
- Bovine gammaherpesvirus 4
- Bovine gammaherpesvirus 6
- bovine genital campylobacteriosis
- bovine genital vibriosis
- bovine genome
- bovine growth hormone
- bovine haemoglobinuria
- bovine hemoglobinuria
- bovine heart
- bovine herpes mammillitis
- bovine herpes virus 1
- Bovine herpesvirus 1
- bovine herpes virus 5
- Bovine herpesvirus 5
- Bovine immunodeficiency virus
- bovine immunoglobulin
- bovine immunoglobulin concentrate
- bovine infectious petechial fever
- bovine ketosis
- bovine lentivirus
- bovine leprosy
- bovine leptospirosis
- bovine leukaemia
- bovine leukemia
Phrases with bovine
- bovine leucosis
- bovine leukosis
- bovine scatology
- bovine papillomatosis
- bovine papillomavirus
- bovine viral diarrhea
- bovine petechial fever
- bovine viral diarrhoea
- bovine papillomaviruses
- enzootic bovine leucosis
- enzootic bovine leukosis
- bovine papular stomatitis
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about bovine
- What does bovine mean?
- Bovine means of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
- What is bovine in Hindi?
- Bovine in Hindi is गोजातीय (gojātīya), पशुवत (paśuvat), गोरूप (gorūp). See Bovine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bovine?
- Bovine can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce bovine?
- Bovine is pronounced /ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/ (UK).
Words near bovine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bovine (page history and authors); bovine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Bovine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bovine (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bovine (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); गोरूप (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); bovine (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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