2018年12月6日 · In the Animal Science field, we typically only use 4 words to describe cattle: bull, steer, heifer, and cow. For young cattle, we may use bull calf or heifer calf to indicate the sex …

The story goes that after the Norman invasion of England, the words in English for prepared foods took on their French equivalents. The Saxon serfs bred the cows, sheep, and swine, which …

Bison, ox, and buffalo are all specific, different species. Confusingly, bison are sometimes called buffalo, although my impression is that this is becoming less common. Bulls are adult males, …

An animal of the bovine genus, whether ox, bull, or cow ; but used of those which are full grown or nearly so. In this, which is the original sense, the word has a plural, beeves. 2. The flesh of an …

2016年5月11日 · "An ox forgot [how it was] when it was a calf" is used to describe a person that has no mercy/is harsh on someone younger when he makes a mistake. Generally speaking, …

A cow is made up of more than its meat so referring to the muscle with a different name to the entire animal isn't that hard to swallow. How the meat is prepared and even the age of the …

2016年5月7日 · Ox is the only word that satisfies the gender neutral requirement. The OED definition 1a is a. A large cloven-hoofed, often horned ruminant mammal, Bos taurus (family …

2014年6月21日 · The word ox comes from the Old English oxa.In Old English, as in Indo-European languages in general (historically and even today), the number of a noun (singular …

2020年1月22日 · @WS2: True. Part of the difficulty here may be that cow is not a class name for a species but the designator of the female of a variety of species. There is no species simply …

2018年8月27日 · ‘He still makes traditional cow bands, used by farmers for tethering cattle and other farm jobs, out of Egyptian flax on an old-fashioned rope-making sled and top.’ ‘Cows …