Bovidae
The name of the family of hollow-horned ruminant mammals typified by the common ox, taurus,
and specially characterized by the presence on the skulls of the males
or of both sexes of a pair of bony projections, or cores, covered in
life with hollow sheaths of horn, which are never branched, and at all
events after a very early stage of existence are permanently retained.
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