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单词 bovine
释义

bovine

/ˈbəʊvʌɪn /
adjective
1Relating to or affecting cattle: bovine tuberculosis bovine tissue...
  • One possible threat is bovine tuberculosis, a disease probably introduced to South Africa through domestic cattle brought in by European settlers at the end of the 18th century.
  • The pests were introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century and today spread bovine tuberculosis to livestock and wreak havoc on forests, competing with native birds for food.
  • Because of their bovine family ties, cattle and buffalo turn out to be vulnerable to many of the same pathogens, such as foot-and-mouth disease and bovine tuberculosis.

Synonyms

cow-like, cattle-like, calf-like, taurine
1.1(Of a person or their manner) sluggish or stupid: a look of bovine contentment came into her face...
  • In between, he kept saying something to the noble looking bovine companion, who was deeply involved with whatever she was munching, and couldn't care less what her master was trying to convey.
  • In it I expose the almost bovine stupidity of a famous Leftist psychologist who tries to pin authoritarianism onto conservatives.
  • How sad, I'm writing about my stupid bovine great aunt.

Synonyms

stupid, slow, dim-witted, dull-witted, ignorant, unintelligent, imperceptive, half-baked, vacuous, mindless, witless, obtuse, doltish, blockish, lumpish, wooden;
stolid, phlegmatic, placid, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, lifeless, inert, inanimate
informal thick, thickheaded, thick as two short planks, dumb, dense, dim, dopey, slow on the uptake, dead from the neck up, boneheaded, blockheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, pig-ignorant, birdbrained, pea-brained
British informal dozy, divvy, daft, not the full shilling
Scottish & Northern English informal glaikit
North American informal chowderhead, dumb-ass
West Indian informal dotish
rare hebete
noun
An animal of the cattle group, which also includes buffaloes and bison.The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in Poland in the seventeenth century, not long before the last dodos were killed on Mauritius....
  • Most numerous are ibex, of which there are twelve carvings, followed by horses, aurochs and other bovines, deer, and mammoths.
  • Max will bring art from all of these projects to this year's show, along with the famous VW Bug painted in a wild spectrum of Max colors, as well as some beautiful bovines from Cow Parade New York 2000.

Synonyms

cow, heifer, bull, bullock, calf, ox;
beef
North American informal boss, bossy
archaic neat

Derivatives

bovinely

adverb ...
  • Your owner has sent you on a mission to steal as much hay as is bovinely possible from the surrounding farms.
  • To the bovinely challenged: cow patties, or cow pies, are splats of cow manure shaped kind of like Frisbees.
  • On second thought, I would much rather pay the price of inner human turmoil rather than be bovinely tranquil.

Origin

Early 19th century: from late Latin bovinus, from Latin bos, bov- 'ox'.

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