bo•vid
We found 6 definitions of bovid from 6 different sources.
NounPlural: bovids |
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bovid - hollow-horned ruminants | ||
ruminant any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments | ||
bovidae, family bovidae true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats | ||
bovine any of various members of the genus Bos | ||
old world buffalo, buffalo any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo | ||
bison any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | ||
musk ox, musk sheep, ovibos moschatus large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep | ||
sheep woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | ||
wild sheep undomesticated sheep | ||
caprine animal, goat any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns | ||
goat antelope bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goats; gorals; serows; chamois; gnu goats | ||
antelope graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks |