What is the difference between bovine and ovine?
bovine | ovine |
(not comparable) Of or pertaining to cattle.
(not comparable) Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including cows, buffalo, and bison.
Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.
* 1992 , Colin Tudge, Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped , page 175
Specifically, resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent.
As adjectives the difference between bovine and ovine
is that bovine is of or pertaining to cattle while ovine is of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.As nouns the difference between bovine and ovine
is that bovine is an animal of the tribe Bovini, including cattle, buffaloes and bison while ovine is a sheep.bovine
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* acute bovine pulmonary emphysema * bibovine * bovine acetonaemia, bovine acetonemia * bovine achondroplasia * * * bovine antitoxin * bovine babesiosis * bovine bingo * bovine borreliosis * bovine brucellosis * bovine cancer eye * bovine cartilage * bovine colloid * bovine colostrum * bovine congenital ataxia * bovine coronavirus * bovine diarrhea virus, bovine diarrhoea virus * bovine encephalitis, bovine encephalomyelitis * bovine enterovirus * bovine ephemeral fever * bovine epizootic fever * bovine face * bovine farcy * bovine foot rot * bovine genital campylobacteriosis * bovine genital vibriosis * bovine genome * bovine growth hormone * bovine haemoglobinuria, bovine hemoglobinuria * bovine heart * bovine herpes mammillitis * * * bovine immunodeficiency virus * bovine immunoglobulin * bovine immunoglobulin concentrate * bovine infectious petechial fever * bovine ketosis * bovine lentivirus * bovine leprosy * bovine leptospirosis * bovine leukaemia, bovine leukemia * bovine leukosis * bovinely * bovine lymphomatosis * bovine malignant catarrh * bovine malignant catarrhal fever * bovine malignant lymphoma * bovine mastitis * bovine mitochondrial endonuclease * bovine myelin * bovine nocardiosis * bovine papillomatosis * bovine papilloma virus, bovine papillomavirus * bovine papular stomatitis * * bovine petechial fever * bovine porphyria * bovine progressive degenerative myeloencephalopathy * bovine respiratory syncytial virus * bovine rhinotracheitis vaccine * bovine rhinovirus * bovine serum albumin * bovine somatotrophin * bovine spongiform encephalitis * bovine spongiform encephalopathy * bovine sporadic encephalomyelitis * bovine theileriasis * bovine trichomoniasis * bovine trypanosomiasis * bovine tuberculosis * bovine ulcerative mammillitis * bovine vaccinia mammillitis * bovine viral diarrhea, bovine viral diarrhoea, bovine virus diarrhea, bovine virus diarrhoea * contagious bovine pleuropneumonia * contagious bovine pyelonephritis * enzootic bovine haematuria, enzootic bovine hematuria * epidemic bovine abortion * epizootic bovine abortion * fetal bovine serum, foetal bovine serum * infectious bovine keratitis * infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis * infectious bovine rhinotracheitis * ovibovine * sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis * sporadic bovine leukosisovine
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(en adjective)- Thus, in general, cattle sperm are reasonably robust, but sheep much less so. Antelope, evolutionarily speaking, are somewhere between cattle and sheep: some are cattle-like, and some are more ovine .