bovid
English Thesaurus
1. hollow-horned ruminants (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | ruminant, |
definition | : | any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bovine, |
definition | : | any of various members of the genus Bos (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | buffalo, old world buffalo, |
definition | : | any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bison, |
definition | : | any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | musk ox, musk sheep, ovibos moschatus, |
definition | : | large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | sheep, |
definition | : | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | wild sheep, |
definition | : | undomesticated sheep (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | caprine animal, goat, |
definition | : | any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | goat antelope, |
definition | : | bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goats; gorals; serows; chamois; gnu goats (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | antelope, |
definition | : | graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | forest goat, pseudoryx nghetinhensis, spindle horn, |
definition | : | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope; characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | bovidae, family bovidae, |
definition | : | true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats (noun.animal) |
2. of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) (adj.pert)
pertainym | : | bos, genus bos, |
definition | : | wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini (noun.animal) |
pertainym | : | bos, genus bos, |
definition | : | wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini (noun.animal) |
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