dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/bov_MW.json

{
  "bovine spongiform encephalopathy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fatal prion disease of cattle that affects the nervous system, resembles or is identical to scrapie of sheep and goats, and is probably transmitted by infected tissue in food":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation BSE"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease comes from exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), most often through consumption of infected cattle. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "The official name of mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 30 May 2021",
      "It\u2019s a prion disease with similarities to mad cow disease, which is scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy . \u2014 Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2021",
      "The disease is part of a group called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, the most famous of which is bovine spongiform encephalopathy , also known as mad cow disease. \u2014 Jim Robbins, New York Times , 12 Nov. 2020",
      "And in 1989, the government banned imports of beef and lamb from regions, including Britain, affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy , better known as mad cow disease. \u2014 David Yaffe-bellany, New York Times , 24 Jan. 2020",
      "Two decades ago, Chicago got caught up in cow fever \u2014 not bovine spongiform encephalopathy , but a benign form of art-cow madness. \u2014 Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 28 June 2019",
      "But, the most well-known is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE aka mad cow disease). \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 26 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1987, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042518"
  },
  "bovine staggers":{
    "type":[
      "noun plural but singular in construction"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a disease of cattle in southern Africa characterized by staggering, inflammation, emaciation, and finally paralysis and caused by eating a poisonous herb ( Matricaria nigellaefolia )":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050121"
  },
  "bovine malaria":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": texas fever":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112822"
  },
  "bovine farcy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": farcy sense 2":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162155"
  },
  "bovine":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow":[
        "a bovine disease"
      ],
      ": having qualities (such as placidity or dullness) characteristic of oxen or cows":[
        "had a stupid, bovine expression on his face"
      ],
      ": any of a subfamily (Bovinae) of bovids including oxen, bison, buffalo, and their close relatives":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u014d-\u02ccv\u012bn",
      "-\u02ccv\u0113n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "She stared at us with a stupid, bovine expression.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Seating surfaces retain their bovine provenance, but the nappa leather gets a more environmentally friendly treatment via pine-tree bark and buckwheat used in the dyeing process. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 21 June 2022",
      "In a wooden barn perched on a grassy hill, some of the most celebrated cows in the dairy business \u2014 the bovine royal family of American fancy butter \u2014 sampled hay in their new abode. \u2014 Melissa Clark, New York Times , 10 June 2022",
      "Instead, these pieces were carved from bone \u2014 probably good old bovine bones of some nature. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 1 June 2022",
      "When not watching the equestrian or bovine sports, rodeo attendees can head to Agventure inside the NRG Center to pet all kinds of farm animals \u2014 or touch with your eyes only. \u2014 Emma Balter, Chron , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "The animals are now working as bovine therapists at a nonprofit ashram of sorts called the Gentle Barn, located in the small, rural community of Dittmer, Missouri. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "The researchers then estimated how many cases of anthrax and bovine tuberculosis could spread from contact with animal carcass waste in Mekelle and modeled disease rates with and without hungry hyenas cleaning up. \u2014 Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "The likely ancestral origin of OC43 is a bovine coronavirus; the nearest neighbor for 229E is a llama coronavirus; and the others probably arose as inter-species jumps from the vast global reservoir of bat coronaviruses. \u2014 Donald S. Burke, STAT , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "One of his most demanding assignments, Dr. Cox said, was a study of bovine tuberculosis in badgers. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The bovine was struck within a hundred yards of the family\u2019s front porch, according to the farm\u2019s post. \u2014 al , 16 May 2022",
      "The bovine was seen as a crucial ally in taming \u2014 and then claiming \u2014 the wildest of terrain. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Outside, Tye Martinez, 17, paused from grooming his steers, Diesel and Bullet, to recount the thrill of state fairs in the past, where participants paraded their bovine down a street lined with young children marveling at the enormous animals. \u2014 Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Outside, Tye Martinez, 17, paused from grooming his steers, Diesel and Bullet, to recount the thrill of state fairs in the past, where participants paraded their bovine down a street lined with young children marveling at the enormous animals. \u2014 Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Outside, Tye Martinez, 17, paused from grooming his steers, Diesel and Bullet, to recount the thrill of state fairs in the past, where participants paraded their bovine down a street lined with young children marveling at the enormous animals. \u2014 Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Bennett, a rancher, was there with his 16-year-old daughter, Callie, who was showing a 1,335-pound steer named Jimmy in hopes of winning a belt buckle, a banner and a chance to sell the bovine . \u2014 Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Outside, Tye Martinez, 17, paused from grooming his steers, Diesel and Bullet, to recount the thrill of state fairs in the past, where participants paraded their bovine down a street lined with young children marveling at the enormous animals. \u2014 Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Bennett, a rancher, was there with his 16-year-old daughter, Callie, who was showing a 1,335-pound steer named Jimmy in hopes of winning a belt buckle, a banner and a chance to sell the bovine . \u2014 Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin bovinus , from Latin bov-, bos ox, cow \u2014 more at cow":"Adjective and Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1721, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1839, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171109"
  },
  "bovid":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of a family (Bovidae) of ruminants that have hollow unbranched permanently attached horns present in usually both sexes and that include antelopes, oxen, sheep, and goats":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u014d-v\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In 2017, a second statue depicting a girl standing her ground was set in front of the bovid , creating a spectacular tableau. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "The few other bones in the cave came from various bovid species, a fox, and even some baboons (which forage in the high grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau and sleep on cliffside ledges). \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 9 Aug. 2019",
      "Heller\u2019s connections in Denmark gave the group access to a huge tissue collection, including from dozens of wild bovids , but Heller says some of them proved impossible to extract enough DNA to sequence. \u2014 Megan Molteni, WIRED , 20 June 2019",
      "Wildebeests on the Serengeti do not have the luxury of hiding their young like forest-dwelling deer\u2014out in the sunshine and short grass, the big bovids and their offspring are constantly exposed. \u2014 Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian , 11 July 2018",
      "At European sites in Italy, Belgium, France, and central Europe, notched marks like these have been found on antlers, tusks and teeth, ribs, limbs, and other bones from reindeer, red deer, mammoth, and several bovid species. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 1 May 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin Bovidae , from Bov-, Bos , type genus, from Latin bov-, bos":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1889, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194533"
  },
  "Bovista":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of basidiomycetes (family Lycoperdaceae) including various puffballs having a thin peridium at maturity":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "b\u014d\u02c8vist\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from German bofist, bovist puffball, alteration of Middle High German vohenvist , from vohe she-fox (from Old High German foha ) + vist, v\u012bst emission of gas from the colon":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203739"
  },
  "bovo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a lateen-rigged masted fishing boat of Genoa":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u014d(\u02cc)v\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205511"
  },
  "Bovidae":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a large family of ruminants containing the true antelopes, oxen, sheep, and goats, distinguished from the deer family by the polycotyledonary placenta, the hollow nondeciduous unbranched horns, and by the nearly universal presence of a gallbladder":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u014dv\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Bov-, Bos , type genus + -idae":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211105"
  },
  "bovoid":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": like or belonging to the genus Bos or family Bovidae : bovine":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u014d\u02ccv\u022fid"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin bov-, bos + English -oid":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020216"
  }
}