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Definition of bovine in English: bovineadjective ˈbəʊvʌɪn 1Relating to or affecting cattle. 牛的，关于牛的 牛肺结核病。 牛组织。 Example sentencesExamples - In the laboratory, ‘the nematodes can live in bovine manure for 4 to 6 weeks without hosts,’ says Taylor.
- Because of their bovine family ties, cattle and buffalo turn out to be vulnerable to many of the same pathogens, such as foot-and-mouth disease and bovine tuberculosis.
- The bovine stomach bacteria add to a growing list of cheap, plentiful, and non-polluting substances that run devices known as microbial fuel cells (MFCs).
- Some of these supplements, called glandulars, contain bovine brain, pituitary, pineal gland, and spinal cord, all organs where infectious prions may concentrate.
- Regular readers will know that we have been taking a close interest in homosexuality among farmyard animals - specifically ovine and bovine lesbianism.
- Forensic tests showed that the blood was bovine or avian, and the ‘tumors’ were pig entrails or chicken livers.
- As a result, those genetic segments record the genetic twists and turns of different cattle lineages and, in the language of DNA, serve as scribes of bovine history.
- But he does serve up plenty of anecdotes about ranching life in the western United States, as well as welcome digressions on the economics of modern-day beef raising and the basics of bovine psychology.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is actively considering a buyout of all 11 El Paso area dairy herds as well as a shutdown of the local dairy industry in response to chronic outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis in the region.
- Commercial cloning of cattle has been available for about a year now, and that was within a couple of years of the first bovine clone being born.
- The bovine luteal tissues were obtained from Heng-Chun Station, Taiwan Livestock Research Institute.
- It's a permanent soft-tissue filler that is composed of part bovine collagen and part polymer beads, which help stimulate the body to produce its own collagen.
- Fewer and fewer cows are infected today, but now there is an outbreak of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, resulting from the consumption of beef products contaminated by infected bovine central nervous system tissue.
- The pests were introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century and today spread bovine tuberculosis to livestock and wreak havoc on forests, competing with native birds for food.
- Although generating swine clones appears to pose more technical difficulties than bovine clones, once piglets are born, they appear to be healthy.
- One possible threat is bovine tuberculosis, a disease probably introduced to South Africa through domestic cattle brought in by European settlers at the end of the 18th century.
- Remarkably, sperm mitochondria persist in mammalian interspecies crosses as demonstrated for murine and bovine hybrids.
- Some parts seem to be like bird or avian viruses, while other bits are similar to bovine or murine viruses.
- Remember Dolly and all those other ovine and bovine clones?
- Its forty-six helical-structured chromosomes are human, not bovine, avian, or reptilian.
Synonyms cow-like, cattle-like, calf-like, taurine - 1.1 (of a person or their manner) sluggish or stupid.
牛一般的，呆头呆脑的，迟钝的 a look of bovine contentment came into her face 她脸上露出一种呆呆的、满足的神情。 Example sentencesExamples - How sad, I'm writing about my stupid bovine great aunt.
- In it I expose the almost bovine stupidity of a famous Leftist psychologist who tries to pin authoritarianism onto conservatives.
- In between, he kept saying something to the noble looking bovine companion, who was deeply involved with whatever she was munching, and couldn't care less what her master was trying to convey.
- So, all in all, with my daily pill, I'm happy without being daft, content without being bovine.
- Bosporus is named so because of the bovine woman.
- Together with her bovine friend Cassie, they intend to take the town for all its sweet creamy caramel candy goodness.
- The bovine fellow hasn't overestimated, either.
- Anyway, today there was indeed one such person in the cafe, and the abrupt shift between bovine inaction and sudden stentorian animation was particularly marked.
- She had always teased him, calling him reptilian, and he had shot back with varying degrees of irritation that at least he wasn't bovine.
- Lemon is quite capable of irritating the most bovine of people or animals.
- The stock's up more than 100 per cent recently, though, thanks to some desperate financing, a helping hand from the yield gods and the boundless stupidity of the bovine retail herd.
- That was Mrs Belmont, whose pretty, docile, and bovine daughter had been neglected since Katie's debut.
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
nounˈbəʊvʌɪn An animal of the cattle group, which also includes buffaloes and bison. 牛类动物 Example sentencesExamples - But cow's milk is certainly not toxin-free either; bovines commonly eat grass, hay, and grain sprayed with pesticides, for example.
- There she learned to both respect and fear the power of beef, as marauding groups of bovines perpetrated numerous acts of violence in a gang war that lasted decades.
- These Chicago bovines followed similar Swiss cows, who grazed though Zurich in 1997.
- The English hunter, meanwhile, was meant to follow not bovines but canines.
- We simply couldn't take our mind off the bovines.
- Max will bring art from all of these projects to this year's show, along with the famous VW Bug painted in a wild spectrum of Max colors, as well as some beautiful bovines from Cow Parade New York 2000.
- Bangalore has so many of these wandering bovines.
- Government authorities who have been blaming red-muzzled mice for the mutilations now must explain how the mice carried the bovines into the tank.
- For the opera festival arts trail you will see six Cow Parade bovines graze the streets of Waterford.
- Entering the plateau of the great central region, one realises why Yaks, the famed hairy oxen-like bovines of the Himalayas, are some of the only animals who can exists on such scraggy vegetation.
- Players must build stables for the cows, send the bovines out to pasture and then bring them back in to milk them for much-needed resources.
- Then there are the cows - eye-catching herds of multicoloured fibreglass bovines all over town.
- The results of tests on this group of bovines shed greater light: within the animals' remains and around their carcasses, researchers discovered fecal matter from rodents and other animals.
- Most numerous are ibex, of which there are twelve carvings, followed by horses, aurochs and other bovines, deer, and mammoths.
- Beyond the obvious nutritional superiority of milk over beer, mistreating dairy cows just doesn't make economic sense; bovines produce better quality and higher volumes of milk when coddled.
- And no, it isn't a show about bucolic bovines or pretty pigs.
- By 4.30 all the bails were moved, half to an easily accessible corner of the hay shed and the rest to middle of the cow shed where they'll be fenced off from the bovines.
- Scanning the kitchen as Ellen bustles about, I count six more cows: a blue and white ceramic dish on the table, a couple of refrigerator magnets, and a trio of colorful metal bovines frolicking across the wall.
- We have started moving the cows into their positions at Sandton City and Nelson Mandela Square and the crowds can't help but stop and look at these beautiful bovines.
- 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
Derivativesadverb Your owner has sent you on a mission to steal as much hay as is bovinely possible from the surrounding farms. Example sentencesExamples - On second thought, I would much rather pay the price of inner human turmoil rather than be bovinely tranquil.
- To the bovinely challenged: cow patties, or cow pies, are splats of cow manure shaped kind of like Frisbees.
- Then he was lying on the floor and staring bovinely as the child's mother was yelling hysterically and kicking him.
- They know - they absolutely know - they're going to be watching a drama unfold for two hours in the dark of the theater, and yet they are too irredeemably, bovinely, criminally stupid to shut off their phones.
OriginEarly 19th century: from late Latin bovinus, from Latin bos, bov- 'ox'. Definition of bovine in US English: bovineadjective 1Relating to or affecting cattle. 牛的，关于牛的 牛肺结核病。 牛组织。 Example sentencesExamples - Regular readers will know that we have been taking a close interest in homosexuality among farmyard animals - specifically ovine and bovine lesbianism.
- The bovine luteal tissues were obtained from Heng-Chun Station, Taiwan Livestock Research Institute.
- It's a permanent soft-tissue filler that is composed of part bovine collagen and part polymer beads, which help stimulate the body to produce its own collagen.
- Its forty-six helical-structured chromosomes are human, not bovine, avian, or reptilian.
- Some parts seem to be like bird or avian viruses, while other bits are similar to bovine or murine viruses.
- One possible threat is bovine tuberculosis, a disease probably introduced to South Africa through domestic cattle brought in by European settlers at the end of the 18th century.
- Some of these supplements, called glandulars, contain bovine brain, pituitary, pineal gland, and spinal cord, all organs where infectious prions may concentrate.
- But he does serve up plenty of anecdotes about ranching life in the western United States, as well as welcome digressions on the economics of modern-day beef raising and the basics of bovine psychology.
- Forensic tests showed that the blood was bovine or avian, and the ‘tumors’ were pig entrails or chicken livers.
- The pests were introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century and today spread bovine tuberculosis to livestock and wreak havoc on forests, competing with native birds for food.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is actively considering a buyout of all 11 El Paso area dairy herds as well as a shutdown of the local dairy industry in response to chronic outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis in the region.
- As a result, those genetic segments record the genetic twists and turns of different cattle lineages and, in the language of DNA, serve as scribes of bovine history.
- In the laboratory, ‘the nematodes can live in bovine manure for 4 to 6 weeks without hosts,’ says Taylor.
- Because of their bovine family ties, cattle and buffalo turn out to be vulnerable to many of the same pathogens, such as foot-and-mouth disease and bovine tuberculosis.
- Fewer and fewer cows are infected today, but now there is an outbreak of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, resulting from the consumption of beef products contaminated by infected bovine central nervous system tissue.
- Remarkably, sperm mitochondria persist in mammalian interspecies crosses as demonstrated for murine and bovine hybrids.
- Remember Dolly and all those other ovine and bovine clones?
- Commercial cloning of cattle has been available for about a year now, and that was within a couple of years of the first bovine clone being born.
- The bovine stomach bacteria add to a growing list of cheap, plentiful, and non-polluting substances that run devices known as microbial fuel cells (MFCs).
- Although generating swine clones appears to pose more technical difficulties than bovine clones, once piglets are born, they appear to be healthy.
Synonyms cow-like, cattle-like, calf-like, taurine - 1.1 (of a person) slow-moving and dull-witted.
Example sentencesExamples - Lemon is quite capable of irritating the most bovine of people or animals.
- Bosporus is named so because of the bovine woman.
- The stock's up more than 100 per cent recently, though, thanks to some desperate financing, a helping hand from the yield gods and the boundless stupidity of the bovine retail herd.
- In between, he kept saying something to the noble looking bovine companion, who was deeply involved with whatever she was munching, and couldn't care less what her master was trying to convey.
- Together with her bovine friend Cassie, they intend to take the town for all its sweet creamy caramel candy goodness.
- She had always teased him, calling him reptilian, and he had shot back with varying degrees of irritation that at least he wasn't bovine.
- That was Mrs Belmont, whose pretty, docile, and bovine daughter had been neglected since Katie's debut.
- So, all in all, with my daily pill, I'm happy without being daft, content without being bovine.
- In it I expose the almost bovine stupidity of a famous Leftist psychologist who tries to pin authoritarianism onto conservatives.
- The bovine fellow hasn't overestimated, either.
- How sad, I'm writing about my stupid bovine great aunt.
- Anyway, today there was indeed one such person in the cafe, and the abrupt shift between bovine inaction and sudden stentorian animation was particularly marked.
Synonyms stupid, slow, dim-witted, dull-witted, ignorant, unintelligent, imperceptive, half-baked, vacuous, mindless, witless, obtuse, doltish, blockish, lumpish, wooden
noun An animal of the cattle group, which also includes buffaloes and bisons. 牛类动物 Example sentencesExamples - We simply couldn't take our mind off the bovines.
- But cow's milk is certainly not toxin-free either; bovines commonly eat grass, hay, and grain sprayed with pesticides, for example.
- Scanning the kitchen as Ellen bustles about, I count six more cows: a blue and white ceramic dish on the table, a couple of refrigerator magnets, and a trio of colorful metal bovines frolicking across the wall.
- Government authorities who have been blaming red-muzzled mice for the mutilations now must explain how the mice carried the bovines into the tank.
- We have started moving the cows into their positions at Sandton City and Nelson Mandela Square and the crowds can't help but stop and look at these beautiful bovines.
- These Chicago bovines followed similar Swiss cows, who grazed though Zurich in 1997.
- By 4.30 all the bails were moved, half to an easily accessible corner of the hay shed and the rest to middle of the cow shed where they'll be fenced off from the bovines.
- Entering the plateau of the great central region, one realises why Yaks, the famed hairy oxen-like bovines of the Himalayas, are some of the only animals who can exists on such scraggy vegetation.
- Max will bring art from all of these projects to this year's show, along with the famous VW Bug painted in a wild spectrum of Max colors, as well as some beautiful bovines from Cow Parade New York 2000.
- And no, it isn't a show about bucolic bovines or pretty pigs.
- The results of tests on this group of bovines shed greater light: within the animals' remains and around their carcasses, researchers discovered fecal matter from rodents and other animals.
- Most numerous are ibex, of which there are twelve carvings, followed by horses, aurochs and other bovines, deer, and mammoths.
- 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.
- Players must build stables for the cows, send the bovines out to pasture and then bring them back in to milk them for much-needed resources.
- Beyond the obvious nutritional superiority of milk over beer, mistreating dairy cows just doesn't make economic sense; bovines produce better quality and higher volumes of milk when coddled.
- For the opera festival arts trail you will see six Cow Parade bovines graze the streets of Waterford.
- Then there are the cows - eye-catching herds of multicoloured fibreglass bovines all over town.
- Bangalore has so many of these wandering bovines.
- The English hunter, meanwhile, was meant to follow not bovines but canines.
- There she learned to both respect and fear the power of beef, as marauding groups of bovines perpetrated numerous acts of violence in a gang war that lasted decades.
Synonyms cow, heifer, bull, bullock, calf, ox
OriginEarly 19th century: from late Latin bovinus, from Latin bos, bov- ‘ox’. |