bovid

1. 1.

   of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

   Synonymsbovine

Other forms of bovid

plural

bovids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bovid

What does bovid mean?

bovid means "hollow-horned ruminants". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bovid?

bovid has 2 syllables: bo-vid. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for bovid?

Close synonyms include bovine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bovid a common word?

bovid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.