Bovine vs. Porcine

Bovineadjective

(not comparable) Of or pertaining to cattle.

Porcineadjective

Of or pertaining to the pig.

Bovineadjective

(not comparable) Belonging to the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cows, buffalo, and bison.

Porcineadjective

(derogatory) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

Bovineadjective

Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.

Porcineadjective

Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.

Bovinenoun

An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison.

Porcineadjective

relating to or suggesting swine;

‘comparison between human and porcine pleasures’;

Bovineadjective

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

Porcineadjective

repellently fat;

‘a bald porcine old man’;

Bovineadjective

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

‘The bovine gaze of gaping rustics.’;

Porcineadjective

resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy;

‘piggish table manners’; ‘the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father’; ‘swinish slavering over food’;

Bovinenoun

any of various members of the genus Bos

Bovineadjective

of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)

Bovineadjective

dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox;

‘showed a bovine apathy’;