technically you are answering a question with the question
that's like saying,"give me another word for 'the'" and you responding with "the"
Except he wasn't asking for a synonym. He specifically asked for a word that can refer to any bovine. The obvious answer is bovine.
It isn't that big of a deal, it is just one of those brain farts when you are thinking that you are looking for the noun version of an adjactive, not realizing that the word you are referring to can simply be a noun.
Refer to what w_a_w said. Cattle [mass noun referring to a specific specie of domesticated animals] are bovine [adjective describing the genus of that animal] but bovine [noun referring to a genus of animals] are not cattle.
You missed his clarification just now, domesticated
I thought you read it since you quoted it
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Bovine is an entire family of wild and domestic animals, Bison are bovine technically. kekeke
Suddenly, I thought I was watching the "Home" episode of the X-Files again