bovine
adj.relating to cows or oxen. It can also describe a person who seems slow, calm, and perhaps a bit dull.
adj.relating to or affecting cattle; by extension, describes a person who is slow-moving, placid, or dull-witted.
“The scientist studied bovine diseases on the farm.”
“The farmer implemented new safety measures to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis among his herd.”
“The protagonist was described as having a bovine expression, suggesting a lack of intellectual curiosity and a slow, methodical approach to the crisis unfolding around him.”
Typically used as an attributive adjective before a noun; when applied to humans, it often carries a mildly derogatory nuance.
“Besides lipids, they have recovered about 2,000 different proteins from bovine muscle using manual STEi, Thirumalaikumar said.”
PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.