ovine

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Adjective 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Derived terms 1.1.3 Related terms 1.1.4 Translations 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 2 French 2.1 Adjective 3 Italian 3.1 Adjective

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ovine (comparative more ovine, superlative most ovine)

1. 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.

2. Specifically, resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent.

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• (of or relating to sheep): sheeplike, sheepy
• (resembling a sheep in character):

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ovine (plural ovines)

1. A sheep.

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ovine

1. feminine form of ovin

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ovine

1. feminine plural form of ovino