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A bovine is another word for domesticated cattle of the species Bos primigenius, subspecies taurus(European/British-type cattle) and B. indicus(tropical/desert-type cattle). Colloquially, they are also called "cows."
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Unlike the name for all other farm animals, English has no widely-known word for (gender-unspecified) "bovine animal." ("Bovine" is really an adjective.) "Horse" can refer to a mare or a stallion, "sheep" to a ewe or ram, etc. "Cattle" comes the closest, but is strictly plural. "Cow" implies the female, ""bull" the male, and "steer" and "ox" neutered/castrated bulls.
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∙ 12y agoBull cows don't exist. It's either a bull or a cow. And a bull or a cow can be a bovine, yes, but it can be another animal like an elephant, a moose, a bison, buffalo, rhino, etc.
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∙ 7y agoA bovid is any animal of the family Bovidae, such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep.
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∙ 13y agoA bovine is any breed of cow or bull
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∙ 12y agoA Bull
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What is a male cow's offspring called?
There is no such thing as a male cow. A cow is a mature female bovine that had had a calf, and a bull is an intact male bovine. So the young offspring of a bull and cow is a calf.
What does a bull mate with to get a cow?
A cow is a mature female bovine that has already had at least two calves. A bull is a male bovine that is used to breed cows. Therefore, a bull mates with a cow to produce a calf that has a 50% chance of growing into a cow or a bull.
What is the opposite word of bull?
Cow. A bull is (usually) a mature male bovine, and a cow is a mature female bovine.
Opposite gender of bull?
a bullock is a castrated male young cattle. the opposite is a heifer which has not had a calf. a cow is a female cattle which had bore a calf while a bull is a male cattle which has had a cow. Bull is short for bullock and a bull is not castrated. A steer is a castrated male. The opposite gender of bullock is cow. Bull and cow.
What is bull dung?
Bull dung is excrement from the male of the bovine species. Sometimes called cow pies.
What is the scientific name of steer?
A steer is a male uncastrated bovine. They have the same scientific name as a heifer or a cow or a bull, a bovine.
What is bigger a male cow or a female cow?
There is no such thing as a "female cow" nor a "male cow." "Cow" refers to the female of any species including the domestic bovine, and is not a name of a specific animal. The male of a domestic bovine is called a bull, and the female (mature) a cow. To answer your question, it is the bull that is the larger of the two in most cases, such as within breeds and when the bull and the cow are the same age. But, if you compare between breeds, such as if the bull is a Dexter and the cow a Holstein, or if the bull is much younger than the cow, then the opposite may be true.
What was bred to make a cow?
A cow already exists as is, since it is a female bovine that has already had a calf. But, in the facts of evolution, another bull and a cow had to have mated to produce this "cow."
What is a bull not a cow?
The question is a bit ambiguous and rhetorical: a bull is most definitely not a cow. A bull is an intact male bovine, often mature, that is used to breed cows and heifers for the propose of producing offspring, being calves.
What is the plural of bovine?
The vocab word bovine means having the quality of a cow or ox: sluggish, dull. Despite the comedian's antics, the audience sat in bovine silence. bovinity, n.Bovine is an adjective meaning like a cow or bull.
Is a cow a horse?
No, a horse is part of the equine "family", while a cow (female, and bull being male) is from the bovine "family". In this context, family can be considered to be the species.
Is cow hump fat?
On a Bos indicus bovine, yes. On a Bos taurusbovine which would be a bull, no. That hump is of muscle, not fat.
