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Webster 1913 Edition

Ovine

O′vine

(ō′vīn)
,
Adj.
[L.
ovinus
, fr.
ovis
sheep: cf. F.
ovine
.]
Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ovine

O'VINE

,
Adj.
[L. ovinus, from ovis, sheep.] Pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

Definition 2024

ovine

ovine

English

Adjective

ovine ‎(comparative more ovine, superlative most ovine)

  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.
    • 1992, Colin Tudge, Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped, page 175
      Thus, in general, cattle sperm are reasonably robust, but sheep much less so. Antelope, evolutionarily speaking, are somewhere between cattle and sheep: some are cattle-like, and some are more ovine.
  2. Specifically, resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent.

Synonyms

  • (of or relating to sheep): sheeplike, sheepy
  • (resembling a sheep in character):

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Noun

ovine ‎(plural ovines)

  1. A sheep.

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French

Adjective

ovine

  1. feminine singular of ovin

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Italian

Adjective

ovine

  1. feminine plural form of ovino

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Latin

Adjective

ovīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of ovīnus

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