bo·vid (b  v d)adj. Of or belonging to the family Bovidae, which includes hoofed, hollow-horned ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats, and buffaloes. n. A member of the family Bovidae. [From New Latin Bovidae, family name, from Latin b s, bov-, cow; see bovine.] |
bovid [ˈbəʊvɪd]
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Bovidae, a family of ruminant artiodactyl hollow-horned mammals including sheep, goats, cattle, antelopes, and buffalo
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any bovid animal
[from New Latin Bovidae, from Latin bōs ox]
| bovid (bvd) Any of various hoofed, horned ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, which includes cattle, sheep, goats, buffaloes, bisons, antelopes, and yaks. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  bovid - hollow-horned ruminants ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats bovine - any of various members of the genus Bos Old World buffalo, 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 |
| Adj. | 1. | bovid - of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) |
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