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Bovine vs Ungulate - What's the difference?

bovine | ungulate |

As adjectives the difference between bovine and ungulate

is that bovine is (not comparable) of or pertaining to cattle while ungulate is having hooves.

As nouns the difference between bovine and ungulate

is that bovine is an animal of the tribe bovini , including cattle, buffaloes and bison while ungulate is an ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.

bovine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or pertaining to cattle.
  • (not comparable) Belonging to the tribe Bovini, including cows, buffalo, and bison.
  • Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.

    • Derived terms

    * 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 leukosis

    Related terms

    * beef * Bos * Boselaphini * Boselaphus * bovate * bovicide * boviculture * bovid * boviform * Bovidae * Bovinae * Bovini * Bovinus spiritualis * Bovril

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal of the tribe Bovini , including cattle, buffaloes and bison.

    • ungulate

    English

    (wikipedia ungulate)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having hooves.
  • * 1866 , Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals , page 242:
    • When Owen wrote his description there was no evidence to determine the character of the extremities, whether they were ungulate , unguiculate, or pinnate, while the structure of the nostrils suggested
  • * 1893 , in The American naturalist , volume 27, page 126 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G0pKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126&dq=%22are+ungulate%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tkuGT-GrHYqR8AGw9pCpCA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22are%20ungulate%22&f=false]:
    • Unlike the serial manus and pes of the edentata the carpus and tarsus are here diplarthrous in structure or displaced upon each other. While the Condylarthra are ungulate with an unguiculate carpus and tarsus,
  • * 1922 , in Indiana University studies , volume 9, page 68 [http://books.google.com/books?id=gsUAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22more%20ungulate%20than%22&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=%22more%20ungulate%20than%22&f=false]:
    • areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.
  • * 2012 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars , volume 3:
    • Like nearly all the land animals of Jupiter, as I was to learn later, they were ungulate , hoofs evidently being rendered necessary by the considerable areas of hardened lava on the surface of the planet,
  • Shaped like a hoof.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.
    • The majority of large land mammals are ungulates .