how to pronounce bovine

/ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/

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bovine is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of bovine in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… um it's from bovine bovine yeah …”

meanings of bovine

adjective:

Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.
Belonging to the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cows, buffalo, and bison.
Of or pertaining to cattle.

noun:

An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison.

bovine frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bovine occurs in english on average 2.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bovine can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bovine can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;