ovine
English
Adjective
ovine (comparative more ovine, superlative most ovine)
- Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep.
- 1992, Colin Tudge, Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped, page 175
- 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.
- 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.
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terms derived from ovine
- corticorelin ovine triflutate
- infectious ovine keratoconjunctivitis
- ovine acetonaemia, ovine acetonemia
- ovine babesiosis
- ovine-caprine lentivirus
- ovine ecthyma vaccine
- ovine foot rot
- ovine genital campylobacteriosis
- ovine genital vibriosis
- ovine mastitis
- ovine progressive pneumonia
- ovine pulmonary adenomatosis
- ovine smallpox
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Translations
of or relating to sheep
resembling a sheep
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Noun
ovine (plural ovines)
- A sheep.
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French
Adjective
ovine
- feminine singular of ovin
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Italian
Adjective
ovine f pl
- Feminine plural of adjective ovino.
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Latin
Adjective
ovīne
- vocative masculine singular of ovīnus
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