bovine
pronunciation
How to pronounce bovine in British English:
UK [ˈbəʊvaɪn]
How to pronounce bovine in American English:
US [ˈboʊvaɪn]
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- Noun:
- any of various members of the genus Bos
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
- dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
Word Origin
- bovine
- bovine: see beef
- bovine (adj.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Moreover , this muscle is low in fat , like that of its bovine counterparts .
- 2. Bovine colostrum is loaded with antibodies and growth factors - the kinds of things that give calves a healthy start in life .
- 3. The species takes its name from the shape of its rostrum , where the pectoral fins split into two lobes separated by a center crease-creating a feature rather like a bovine nose .
- 4. But now british scientists have published a study ( coming out in the march edition of the american journal of physiology ) suggesting bovine colostrum has at least one very real effect : reducing " gut leakiness " in athletes .
- 5. But when cloning works , as it increasingly does , it can replicate star beefy bovine and plump pigs .