bovid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈboʊvɪd/ (General-American)
Etymology
From the stem of Classical Latin bōs + -id, after taxonomic name Bovidae. By surface analysis, an appellativization from Bovid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Meanings
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Of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, cattle, goat, and sheep).
The land slopes at every turn in this pristine pocket of northern Otsego County. […] It appears that little would link this quiet corner to the hurly-burly of immigrant hubs like Jackson Heights and Elmhurst in Queens, or Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. But Phillip D. Metzger saw the connection: hollow-horned bovid ruminants. That is, goats. Or more specifically, goat meat.
1996 June 15, Monte Williams, “Bringing Goat”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:Twenty more specimens, including a complete skin, were subsequently collected and, in 1993, laboratory tests revealed the animal to be not only a new species, but an entirely new genus in the bovid family, which includes cattle, sheep, goats and antelopes.
2022 January 7, Veronika Perková, “Scientists step up hunt for ‘Asian unicorn’, one of world’s rarest animals”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2022:[S]he [Maria Antonietta Avanzo] also “spent her life fighting prejudice, ostracism, obstacles and men,” recounts her biographer, Luca Malin, “especially when they would throw things in her way or herd sheep onto the track to keep her from getting to the finish line.” Happily, women today can anticipate fewer barriers, at least of the bovid kind.
2021 August 11, Robert C. Yeager, “More Women Muscle In on the World of Vintage Cars”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more bovid | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most bovid | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |