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noun hollow-horned ruminants
adjective of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
originFrom the stem of Classical Latin bōs + -id, after taxonomic name Bovidae. By surface analysis, an appellativization from Bovid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0