bóvido

Definitions of bóvido
  1. noun
    hollow-horned ruminants
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    bovino
    any of various members of the genus Bos
    búfalo
    any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
    bisonte
    any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
    ganado lanar, ganado ovino, ovino
    woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
    ganado cabrío
    any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
    antílope
    graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
    ganado vacuno, vacuno
    domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
    búfalo de agua
    an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
    tamarao
    small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines
    búfalo africano
    large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
    búfalo
    large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
    bisonte europeo
    European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison
    oveja
    female sheep
    morueco
    uncastrated adult male sheep
    oveja
    any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin
    argali
    wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia
    cabrito, chivo
    young goat
    cabrón, macho cabrío
    male goat
    cabra
    female goat
    cabra
    any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool
    cabra salvaje
    undomesticated goat
    gamuza
    hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
    adax
    large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa
    ñu
    large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
    topi
    a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal
    impala
    African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
    gacela
    small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
    bongo
    large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
    saiga
    goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis
    orix
    large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns
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    rumiante
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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