bovine

adj
/ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/UK/ˈboʊˌvaɪn/US

Etymology

PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.

  1. derived from bōs
  2. borrowed from bovīnus

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.

  2. Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.

    • They had been selected and arranged with a dull, bovine indifference to any meaning that any of them might have.
    • For reasons which are really a matter for a trainee psychoanalyst, who plays James Bond is a big thing for Spencer. To this end, he has unleashed a series of thoughts so bovine that I’ll just give you one for a little flavour.
    • The inevitable consequence of handling complex international issues with cruel and bovine simplicity is to spread fear, uncertainty and instability.
  3. An animal of a family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bovine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bovine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at bovine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA