noun
hollow-horned ruminants
• Hypernyms: ↑ruminant
• Hyponyms:
↑bovine, ↑Old World buffalo, ↑buffalo, ↑bison, ↑musk ox, ↑musk sheep, ↑Ovibos moschatus, ↑sheep, ↑wild sheep, ↑goat, ↑caprine animal, ↑goat antelope, ↑antelope, ↑forest goat, ↑spindle horn, ↑Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bovidae, ↑family Bovidae
adjective
of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
• Syn: ↑bovine
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ˈbovid, a.[f. as prec. + -id.]
Of or pertaining to the ox family, or Bovidæ of Zoologists, a family of Ruminating animals, having simply rounded horns, and no lachrymal sinuses.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.