bovid
/ˈboʊvɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.19 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The land slopes at every turn in this pristine pocket of northern Otsego County. […] It appears that little would link this quiet corner to the hurly-burly of immigrant hubs like Jackson Heights and Elmhurst in Queens, or Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. But Phillip D. Metzger saw the connection: hollow-horned bovid ruminants. That is, goats. Or more specifically, goat meat."
- "[S]he [Maria Antonietta Avanzo] also “spent her life fighting prejudice, ostracism, obstacles and men,” recounts her biographer, Luca Malin, “especially when they would throw things in her way or herd sheep onto the track to keep her from getting to the finish line.” Happily, women today can anticipate fewer barriers, at least of the bovid kind."
- "Twenty more specimens, including a complete skin, were subsequently collected and, in 1993, laboratory tests revealed the animal to be not only a new species, but an entirely new genus in the bovid family, which includes cattle, sheep, goats and antelopes."
Etymology
From the stem of Classical Latin bōs + -id, after taxonomic name Bovidae. By surface analysis, an appellativization from Bovid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈboʊvɪd/
Inflected Forms
Phrases
bovid hybrid