| 单词 | ovine |
| 释义 | ovine (once / 187609 pages) adj Anything ovine has to do with sheep — this is a sheep-specific word. Baa! Just as canine describes dog-like things and bovine describes cow-like things, ovine is used to describe specifically sheep-like things. A poodle with hair that resembles a sheep is kind of ovine. Someone who sheers sheep gives ovine haircuts. A scientist who studies sheep knows more ovine facts than anyone else, except maybe a farmer with a lot of ovine critters on the farm. WORD FAMILYovine USAGE EXAMPLESTypically ovine cable news anchors, either embarrassed by their past coverage or fed up with Trump’s racism and misogyny, dared to challenge him. Slate(Oct 31, 2016) Until then, though, the islands might need some more ovine volunteers — lucky the Faroes have more sheep than people. The Verge(Jul 13, 2016) The cells I had were ovine mammary epithelial cells: we were looking to increase expression of proteins in milk. Nature(Jun 28, 2016) adj of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep |
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