Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.

dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"

Having to do with cows and cattle, as in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), bovine tuberculosis, and bovine growth hormone.