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bovine
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ adjective ] of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
Synonyms Used in print (M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)For the albumin method , equal volumes of 30 % bovine albumin , sample and 2 % cells suspended in saline were allowed to stand at room_temperature for 1 hr and then were centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min . (Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)This connection was clarified by Smith and Smith ( 1922 ) , who showed that saline extracts of fresh bovine pituitary_glands could re-activate the atrophied thyroids of hypophysectomised tadpoles . |
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[ adjective ] dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
Examples "showed a bovine apathy" Related terms |
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