Last Updated：2025/11/19

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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

ovine

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Source Word

ovine

IPA(Pronunciation)

Adjective

comparable figuratively

(comparable) Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis.

Japanese Meaning

羊に関する、または羊に似た / 羊属（Ovis属）の動物に関する

What is this buttons?

Researchers studied the ovine placenta to better understand maternal-fetal interactions in mammals.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

研究者たちは、哺乳類の母子相互作用をよりよく理解するために、羊の胎盤を研究した。

Sense（1）

(comparable) Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis.

[…] 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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(comparable, figuratively) Resembling a sheep in character; acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly.

more ovine

（ comparative ）

most ovine

（ superlative ）

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