bovidés

Definitions of bovidés
  1. noun
    hollow-horned ruminants
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    bovin
    any of various members of the genus Bos
    buffle
    any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
    bison
    any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
    mouton
    woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
    chèvre
    any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
    antilope
    graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
    bovins, bétail
    domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
    bison, buffle
    an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
    aurochs, bison d'Europe
    European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison
    brebis
    female sheep
    bélier
    uncastrated adult male sheep
    chevrette
    young goat
    bouc
    male goat
    chèvre
    female goat
    chèvre domestique
    any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool
    chèvre sauvage
    undomesticated goat
    gnou
    large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
    gazelle
    small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
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    ruminants
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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