bovid

How To Use bovid In A Sentence

• Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
• With its unique silhouette of a wild, North American member of the Bovidae. Grouse Diary Entry
• In 1901, I described Piroplasma equi and in 1903, the bacilliform piroplasma of the Bovidae from preparations which had been sent to me by Mr. Theiler, a Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture
• The aurochs Bos primigenius, the wild ancestor of modern cattle, is now extinct, but the American bison also called the plains buffalo, which belongs to the same Bovidae family, displays enormous sexual dimorphism. The Goddess and the Bull
• * A heavily built, Southeast Asian hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae, the takin lives in small herds in the mountains, often above timberline. Chapter 8
• Bovids are found in a wide variety of habitats, from arctic tundras to deep tropical forests.
• Sacred bovids, beginning with the fecund cow and advancing to the virile bull, were finally degraded to mere substance in the hands of humanized deities.
• There are many different types of horn; horns of Bovidae, rhinoceros, antelope and giraffe, as well as the substance of which the beaks of birds, and the claws and hooves of many animals, are made. Chapter 3
• ‘Water buffalo’ is a general term for these bovids at the waterside including Africans, Asians or tamaraus.
• After hippos, bovids are the most abundant group of mammalian fossils.