bovine 🔊 adj UK /ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/ · US /ˈboʊˌvaɪn/
Etymology PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
1 Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
2 Belonging to the subfamily Bovinae.
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, London: William Heinemann, 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: 1 more example The inevitable consequence of handling complex international issues with cruel and bovine simplicity is to spread fear, uncertainty and instability.2025 February 5, “The Guardian view on Trump’s foreign policy: an alarming new order takes shape”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: Derived terms 126 terms 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, Bovine leukemia virus, bovine leukosis , bovinely , bovine lymphomatosis, bovine malignant catarrh, bovine malignant catarrhal fever , bovine malignant lymphoma, Bovine mastadenovirus A, Bovine mastadenovirus B, Bovine mastadenovirus C, bovine mastitis, bovine mitochondrial endonuclease, bovine myelin, bovineness , bovine nocardiosis, bovine papillomatosis , bovine papilloma virus, bovine papillomavirus , bovine papular stomatitis , Bovine papular stomatitis virus, Bovine parainfluenza virus 3, Bovine parvovirus, bovine petechial fever , bovine porphyria, bovine progressive degenerative myeloencephalopathy, Bovine respiratory syncytial virus, Bovine rhinitis A virus, Bovine rhinitis B virus, bovine rhinotracheitis vaccine, bovine rhinovirus, bovine scatology , bovine serum albumin, bovine somatotrophin, bovine spongiform encephalitis, bovine spongiform encephalopathy , bovine sporadic encephalomyelitis, bovine theileriasis, Bovine torovirus, bovine trichomoniasis, bovine trypanosomiasis, bovine tuberculosis, bovine ulcerative mammillitis, bovine vaccinia mammillitis, bovine viral diarrhea , bovine viral diarrhoea, bovine virus diarrhea, bovine virus diarrhoea, Bovine viral diarrhea virus 1, Bovine viral diarrhea virus 2, bovinity , bovinized , contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, contagious bovine pyelonephritis, enzootic bovine haematuria, enzootic bovine hematuria, epidemic bovine abortion, epizootic bovine abortion, fetal bovine serum, foetal bovine serum, infectious bovine keratitis, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis , nonbovine , ovibovine , sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis, sporadic bovine leukosisRelated terms beef , Bos, Boselaphini, Boselaphus, bovate , bovicide , boviculture , bovid , Bovidae, boviform , Bovinae, Bovini, Bovinus spiritualis, Bovril
bovine 🔊 noun Etymology PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
1 An animal of a family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison.
Near-synonyms: cattle beast, cattlebeast, cow