Bō'vine, a.

a. [L. Lat. bovīnus, from Lat. bos, bovis, ox, cow.] Pertaining to oxen and cows, or the quadrupeds of the genus Bos.

This animal is the strongest and fiercest of the bovine genus. Burr w.

The ox-born souls mean nothing more than the eight living souls who issued from their allegorical mother, the bovine ark. Faber.