BOVID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bovid mean? 

• BOVID (noun)
  The noun BOVID has 1 sense:

1. hollow-horned ruminants

  Familiarity information: BOVID used as a noun is very rare.

• BOVID (adjective)
  The adjective BOVID has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

  Familiarity information: BOVID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOVID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hollow-horned ruminants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

• BOVID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

bovid; bovine

Pertainym:

genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)