KINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

Example:

a team of oxen

Synonyms:

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("kine" is a kind of...):

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

Meronyms (parts of "kine"):

beef; boeuf (meat from an adult domestic bovine)

Meronyms (members of "kine"):

calf (young of domestic cattle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kine"):

ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)

stirk (yearling heifer or bullock)

bullock; steer (castrated bull)

bull (uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle)

cow; moo-cow (female of domestic cattle:)

beef; beef cattle (cattle that are reared for their meat)

Welsh; Welsh Black (a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales)

red poll (hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle)

Africander (tall large-horned humped cattle of South Africa; used for meat or draft)

Devon (red dual-purpose cattle of English origin)

grade (a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed)

Holonyms ("kine" is a member of...):

Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

herd (a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans)