Ovine

Quick meaning: Ovine is an adjective meaning (comparable) Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis.

Meaning

(comparable) Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis.

More Meanings

1. (comparable, figurative) Resembling a sheep in character; acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly.
2. An animal from the genus Ovis; a sheep.
3. (figurative) A person regarded as resembling a sheep in character; one who is acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly; a sheep.

Example Sentences

The Patient from being Maniacl, or raging mad, became vvholly Ovine or Sheepiſh; he bleated perpetually, and chevv'd the Cud: […]

Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau,—his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat

Thus, in general, cattle sperm are reasonably robust, but sheep much less so. Antelope, evolutionarily speaking, are somewhere between cattle and sheep: some are cattle-like, and some are more ovine.

At present, municipal councillors play at party politics by organizing the ovine members who do not know how to vote until a Party Whip tells them, and opposing independent candidates at the elections.

Word Forms

• ovines

Synonyms for ovine

Depending on context, synonyms include sheepish, sheeplike, sheepy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sheep, sheepish, sheeplike, sheepmeat, mutton, prolactin.

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