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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[LL.

bovinus

, fr. L.

bos

bovis

, ox, cow: cf. F.

bovine

. See

(Zool.)

Of or pertaining to the genus

Bos

; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike;

as, the

bovine

genus; a

bovine

antelope

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull;

as, a

bovine

temperament

The

bovine

gaze of gaping rustics.

W. Black.

Adj.

[Los L. bovinus, from bos, bovis, an ox.]

Pertaining to oxen and cows, or the quadrupeds of the genus bos.

This animal is the strongest and fiercest of the bovine genus.

The ox-born souls mean nothing more than the eight living souls, who issued from their allegorical mother, the bovine ark.