bovine

bovine
    adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
           [syn: {bovine}, {bovid}]
    2: dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine
       apathy"
    n 1: any of various members of the genus Bos
    

Bovine \Bo"vine\, a. [LL. bovinus, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox, cow:
   cf. F. bovine. See {Cow}.]
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   1. (Zool.) 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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   2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish
      and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
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            The bovine gaze of gaping rustics.    --W. Black.
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112 Moby Thesaurus words for "bovine":
      Boeotian, Brahman, Indian buffalo, asinine, aurochs, beef,
      beef cattle, beef-brained, beef-witted, beeves, bison, blockish,
      bossy, bovid, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, caprid,
      caprine, carabao, cattle, chumpish, cloddish, complacent, cow,
      cowish, cowlike, crass, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, deerlike,
      dense, dispassionate, dogie, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb,
      duncical, duncish, equestrian, equine, even-tempered, fat, goatish,
      goatlike, gross, heifer, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, hornless cow,
      horsy, impassive, imperturbable, ineducable, inexcitable,
      inirritable, kine, klutzy, leppy, lumpish, maverick, milch cow,
      milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, mulish, musk-ox,
      neat, oafish, opaque, ovine, ox, oxen, patient, piggish, ruminant,
      self-complacent, self-content, self-contented, self-satisfied,
      sheepish, sheeplike, smug, sottish, steady, steer, stirk, stoic,
      stolid, stot, stupid, swinish, thick, undisturbable, unflappable,
      ungulate, unirritable, unnervous, unpassionate, unteachable,
      wisent, wrongheaded, yak, yearling, zebu