Ovine

//ˈəʊvaɪn//

Synonyms for "ovine" (29 found)

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Translations

40 translations across 27 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • dhentë adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Arabic

1 entries
  • غَنَمِيّ adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Aromanian

1 entries
  • uin adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • аве́чы adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • о́вчи adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • ове́н noun (sheep — see also sheep)
  • овца́ noun (sheep — see also sheep)

Catalan

1 entries
  • oví adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Czech

1 entries
  • ovčí adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • ŝafa adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

French

2 entries
  • ovin adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • ovin noun (sheep — see also sheep)

German

2 entries
  • Schafs adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • schafsmäßig adj (resembling a sheep in character)

Greek

1 entries
  • πρόβειος adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Italian

1 entries
  • ovino adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Latin

2 entries
  • ovīnus adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • ovis noun (sheep — see also sheep)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • avi̇̀nis adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • овчи adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Polish

2 entries
  • owczy adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • owca noun (sheep — see also sheep)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • ovino adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Romanian

2 entries
  • ovin adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • ovină noun (sheep — see also sheep)

Russian

1 entries
  • ове́чий adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • ȍvčjī adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • о̏вчјӣ adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Silesian

2 entries
  • barōn noun (sheep — see also sheep)
  • ôwca noun (sheep — see also sheep)

Slovak

1 entries
  • ovčí adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Slovene

1 entries
  • ovčji adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Spanish

2 entries
  • ovejuno adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • ovino adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • aiyye adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Ukrainian

3 entries
  • о́вній adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • ове́чий adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • у́чий adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Welsh

2 entries
  • dafadaidd adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)
  • defeidiog adj (of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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[…] Dr. [Mauro] Legni reported to him a month afterward that the ovination had been successful, and that no marked differences had been observable between the vesicles produced by the ovine and those produced by the vaccine lymph. Dr. Legni added, that he had continued to propagate the ovine lymph on children.

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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

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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.

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Ovine meat currently averages 25% of meat production in these countries, but over the projections period, the strongest production gains are expected in the poultry meat sector, contributing 41% to their meat output gains.

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