单词 | bovine |
释义 | bovine/ˈbəʊvʌɪn /adjective 1Relating to or affecting cattle: bovine tuberculosis bovine tissue...
Synonyms cow-like, cattle-like, calf-like, taurine 1.1(Of a person or their manner) sluggish or stupid: a look of bovine contentment came into her face...
Synonyms stupid, slow, dim-witted, dull-witted, ignorant, unintelligent, imperceptive, half-baked, vacuous, mindless, witless, obtuse, doltish, blockish, lumpish, wooden; stolid, phlegmatic, placid, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, lifeless, inert, inanimate informal thick, thickheaded, thick as two short planks, dumb, dense, dim, dopey, slow on the uptake, dead from the neck up, boneheaded, blockheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, pig-ignorant, birdbrained, pea-brained British informal dozy, divvy, daft, not the full shilling Scottish & Northern English informal glaikit North American informal chowderhead, dumb-ass West Indian informal dotish rare hebete noun An animal of the cattle group, which also includes buffaloes and bison.The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in Poland in the seventeenth century, not long before the last dodos were killed on Mauritius....
Synonyms cow, heifer, bull, bullock, calf, ox; beef North American informal boss, bossy archaic neat Derivativesbovinely
OriginEarly 19th century: from late Latin bovinus, from Latin bos, bov- 'ox'. |
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