ovine

English

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

terms related to ovine

oviform Ovinae

ovination Ovis

Translations

of or relating to sheep

• Czech: ovčí (cs)
• French: ovin (fr) m, ovine (fr) f

• Italian: ovino (it) m, ovina (it) f

resembling a sheep

• German: schafsmäßig (de)

Noun

ovine (plural ovines)

1. A sheep.

Translations

a sheep

• Arabic: خروف (ar) (xaruuf) m, خراف (ar) (xiraaf) f pl, أغنام (ar) (ʔağnaam) f pl

  Egyptian Arabic: خروف (xaruuf) m, خرفان (xerfaan) f pl

• French: ovin (fr) m

Anagrams

• envoi

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French

Adjective

ovine

1. feminine form of ovin

Anagrams

• envoi

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Italian

Adjective

ovine

1. feminine plural form of ovino

Anagrams

• niveo

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Latin

Adjective

ovīne

1. vocative masculine singular of ovīnus