Plural of bovine; animals belonging to the cattle family, including cows, bulls, buffalo, and bison.
From Latin bovinus (relating to cattle), which derives from bos (ox, cow). The word entered English in the 17th century as a scientific term for members of the subfamily Bovinae.
Bovines are some of humanity's oldest partners—domesticated around 10,000 years ago—and they transformed human civilization by providing food, labor, and leather. Yet we reduced them to a single adjective meaning 'stupid'!
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