One good example would be the research done in the 1890s on animal disease, on bovine tuberculosis for example, to identify the causes of those diseases and then to develop ways to treat that.
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He sat before a wall full of badges, in a big swivel chair, his bovine features set in mistrustful concentration.
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This miniaturized gym routine enabled the scientists to grow usable quantities of bovine muscle—otherwise known as beef.
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Host Joe Rogan gleefully watches the contestants gag and struggle through the bovine brains until one young man quits altogether.
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A star is born, another goes down courtesy of a synonym for bovine rabies, and the judges try but fail to steal the show.
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The normal temperature of the bovine is 101 to 102 F., which is higher than that of the horse.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle|U.S. Department of Agriculture
Of the two, the bovine is much the more virulent when inoculated into experimental animals.
Outlines of dairy bacteriology|H. L. Russell
Why were their bovine eyes gazing blankly ahead of them at nothing?
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Although not an expert at climbing, I shinned aloft like a squirrel, and for a moment expected the bovine to follow.
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It developed that the bovine Mrs. Levy and the tell-tale Mrs. Levine had gone back that morning.
Comrade Yetta|Albert Edwards
British Dictionary definitions for bovine
bovine
/ (ˈbəʊvaɪn) /
adjective
of, relating to, or belonging to the Bovini (cattle), a bovid tribe including domestic cattle
(of people) dull; sluggish; stolid
noun
any animal belonging to the Bovini
Derived forms of bovine
bovinely, adverb
Word Origin for bovine
C19: from Late Latin bovīnus concerning oxen or cows, from Latin bōs ox, cow