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BOVINES | |
| anoa | a wild ox of the Celebes. |
| arna | the Indian water-buffalo. |
| aurochs | an extinct wild ox, aka URE or URUS. |
| banteng | the wild ox of Java. |
| beefalo | a cross between a cow and a buffalo. Pl. BEEFALOS or BEEFALOES. |
| beeves | cattle, oxen. |
| bestial | a collective name for cattle: BESTIALS. |
| bison | either of two heavily-built wild oxen of the genus Bison. |
| bisontine | of or relating to bison. |
| bonasus bonassus | the aurochs or European bison. Pl. BONASUSES, BONASSUSES. |
| bossy | a cow; (adj.) inclined to boss: BOSSIER, BOSSIEST. |
| bovid | a member of the family Bovidae, ruminants. |
| bovine | relating to cattle; an animal of the cattle family. |
| bovinity | the state of being bovine. |
| buffalo | any of several wild Asiatic oxen; the American bison. Pl. BUFFALOS or BUFFALOES. (Verb) to overawe, bemuse. |
| bull | a male cow. |
| bullock | an ox or castrated bull; (verb) to force (one’s way) heavily: BULLOCKED, BULLOCKING. |
| calfless | of a cow, not having a calf. |
| carabao | a kind of water buffalo. |
| catalo cattalo | a cross between domestic cattle and N. American bison. Pl. CATALOS or CATALOES; CATTALOES or CATTALOS. |
| cattabu | a cross between domestic cattle and zebu. Pl. CATTABUS. |
| cattle | bovine mammals of the genus Bos, esp oxen, bulls and cows. |
| cavicorn | hollow-horned; (noun) an animal of the Bovidae. |
| chang | a kind of cattle. |
| cow | the female of the bovine animals. |
| cowy | suggestive of a cow: COWIER, COWIEST. |
| crummy crummie | a cow with crooked horns. |
| devon | one of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. |
| dexter | a small breed of red or black beef cattle. |
| doddy | a hornless cow; (adj.) sulky: DODDIER, DODDIEST. |
| dso dzo dzho zho zo | a kind of yak. Pl. DSOS, DZOS, DZHOS, ZHOS, ZOS. |
| dsobo zobo zobu | a male ZO. |
| dsomo jomo zhomo | a female ZO. |
| freemartin | a sexually deficient female calf born as a bull calf's twin. |
| gaur | a kind of wild ox, aka SELADANG. |
| gayal gyal | an Indian domesticated ox. |
| hariana | a breed of cattle. |
| hawkie | a cow with a white-striped face. |
| heifer | a young cow that has had no more than one calf. |
| holstein | a breed of cattle. [From Holstein, a region in N. Germany]. |
| humlie | a pollarded or hornless cow. |
| kerry | one of an Irish breed of cattle. |
| kine kyne | cattle. These are plural. Because it also means a type of television tube, KINE can take an –S, but KYNE cannot. |
| kouprey | an Indo-Chinese wild cow. |
| ky kye | cattle. These are plural: no -S hook! |
| kyloe | a small long-haired breed of Hebridean cattle. |
| longhorn | a breed of beef cattle, often reddish, with long curved horns. |
| mooly mooley muley mulley | a hornless cow. |
| muskox+ | a large bovid of arctic regions: MUSKOXEN. |
| neat | an ox, cow, bull etc. Pl. NEATS. |
| ovibos | the musk ox. [L. ovis sheep, and bos, bovis ox]. Pl. OVIBOSES. |
| ovibovine | of or relating to musk-oxen. |
| owse | an ox. Pl. OWSEN. |
| ox | a bovine animal: pl. OXEN; also, a clumsy person: pl. OXES. |
| oxlike+ | like an ox. |
| poler | one of a pair of bullocks harnessed to a pole. |
| poley | of cattle, hornless; (noun) a hornless cow. |
| quey | a heifer. |
| rother | an ox, cow. |
| sahiwal | any of a breed of humped dairy cattle. [From the name of a town in the central Punjab, Pakistan.] |
| saladang seladang sladang | a kind of wild ox, aka GAUR. |
| stirk | a yearling ox or cow. |
| supercow+ | a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield. |
| tamarao tamarau timarau | a small wild buffalo of the Philippines. |
| taurean tauric taurine | of or relating to a bull. TAURINE is also a noun, a chemical compound, and so can take an –S. |
| tollie+ tolly+ | a castrated calf: TOLLIES. |
| ure urus | an extinct wild ox, aka AUROCHS. Pl. URES, URUSES. |
| vealer | a calf raised to provide veal. |
| vealy | resembling veal or a calf: VEALIER, VEALIEST. |
| vitular vituline | pertaining to a calf or to veal. |
| weaner | a calf, lamb, or pig weaned during the current year. |
| wisent | the European bison. |
| yak | a wild and domesticated cattle of Tibet, with long horns and shaggy hair. |
| yakow | an animal crossbred from a male yak and a domestic cow. |
| zamouse | a short-horned buffalo. [Arabic jamus]. |
| zebu | a humped domestic ox. |