bovine meaning

• Adjective: bovine  bowvIn
  1. Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
     - bovid 
  2. Dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
     "showed a bovine apathy"
  Noun: bovine  bowvIn
  1. Any of various members of the genus Bos

  Derived forms: bovines

  See also: dull, genus Bos, hebetudinous

  Type of: bovid

  Part of: Bos, genus Bos

  Encyclopedia: Bovine

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  [Medicine]
  n : an ox (genus Bos) or a closely related animal — bovine adj
  

• bovine adenovirus:    [Medicine]Species ...
• bovine adenoviruses:    [Medicine]Species ...
• bovine brucelloses:    [Medicine]A diseas ...

Examples

1. outside the bovine host, the organism can be readily cultured.
2. a number of countries have virtually eradicated bovine tuberculosis from cattle.
3. a captive wildebeest calf was inoculated with virulent bovine blood.
4. viral bovine rhinotracheitis simulates and may be combined with shipping fever.
5. only fragmentary information on pathogenesis of bovine malignant catarrhal fever is available.