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Definition

belonging or related to the genus Bos (cattle, oxen, buffalo, etc.); or stupid and slow-moving like an ox

According to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, the meat industry generates more worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions than the transportation industry because of the nitrous oxide in manure and the methane that results from bovine digestion.

She showed a bovine apathy.

bovine = stupid and slow-moving like an ox or cow

Mad cow disease is the common term for a brain-wasting disease in cattle called bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Her voice soared over the clink of coffee cups and the soft bovine sounds of the ladies munching their dainties.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

bovine = cow-like

It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting tranquil bovine picnics: slow chewing and thoughtful contemplation of the infinite.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

bovine = cow

Though he bore a bull's head upon his surcoat and horns upon his helm, Ser Forley could not have been less bovine.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Carol tried to stare them down but in face of the impishness of the boys and the bovine gaping of the men, she was embarrassed.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
It is a kind of bovine temperament.
Henry James -- The American
Some faces were toadlike, but others were birdlike, or bovine, while some bore a chillingly human physiognomy.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
And here they were, hunting aimless bovines, thought Lou.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
Apply yourselves, above all, to the amelioration of the soil, to good manures, to the development of the equine, bovine, ovine, and porcine races.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
The boy breathed with steady, bovine calmness.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
I helped them in this by willfully taking on a muted bovine expression so as to avoid any undue attention.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
When its call goes out, every bovine within hearing distance raises its head from grazing and moves toward the sound.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm as fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
The Lordsport men gazed on Theon with blank, bovine eyes, and he realized that they did not know who he was.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
She hated her face, her dull, stupid, bovine face, the vapid eyes, the red, shiny pimples, the nests of blackheads.
Stephen King -- Carrie
Sometimes we only watched them from a distance, all too familiar with their wagging, bovine heads, their haggard shoulders, their rotted, ragged clothing.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
This was not dangerous, for he rarely actually struck us at the table, but it was designed to show us all up as dull-witted, bovine females.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Seabiscuit floated along in a state of contented, bovine torpor.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

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