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BOVID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hollow-horned ruminants
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bovid" is a kind of...):
ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bovid"):
bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)
buffalo; Old World buffalo (any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo)
bison (any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns)
musk ox; musk sheep; Ovibos moschatus (large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep)
sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)
wild sheep (undomesticated sheep)
caprine animal; goat (any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns)
goat antelope (bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goats; gorals; serows; chamois; gnu goats)
antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)
forest goat; Pseudoryx nghetinhensis; spindle horn (cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope; characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat)
Holonyms ("bovid" is a member of...):
Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
Synonyms:
bovid; bovine
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)
