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COWS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
Example:
a team of oxen
Synonyms:
Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cows" is a kind of...):
bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)
Meronyms (parts of "cows"):
beef; boeuf (meat from an adult domestic bovine)
Meronyms (members of "cows"):
calf (young of domestic cattle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cows"):
ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)
stirk (yearling heifer or bullock)
bullock; steer (castrated bull)
bull (uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle)
cow; moo-cow (female of domestic cattle:)
beef; beef cattle (cattle that are reared for their meat)
Welsh; Welsh Black (a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales)
red poll (hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle)
Africander (tall large-horned humped cattle of South Africa; used for meat or draft)
dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker (cattle that are reared for their milk)
Devon (red dual-purpose cattle of English origin)
grade (a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed)
Holonyms ("cows" is a member of...):
Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)
herd (a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb cow
Context examples:
Viruses infect vertebrates including man, monkeys, pigs and cows; primarily infect the gastrointestinal tract but also multiply in nerve, muscle, etc.
(Enterovirus, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
Food made from the milk of some mammals, most commonly cows, goats and sheep.
(Dairy Product, NCI Thesaurus)
Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Thus war was announced to the Bear, and all four-footed animals were summoned to take part in it, oxen, asses, cows, deer, and every other animal the earth contained.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
My eldest daughter attends at five every morning in a neighbouring establishment, to acquire the process—if process it may be called—of milking cows.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These are usually from cows (bovine) but are also from goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo.
(Dairy Product, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Hyperimmune bovine colostrum is harvested during the first days after calving from cows that have been inoculated repeatedly with specific pathogens during pregnancy.
(Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum, NCI Thesaurus)
The wolves were now in the country of game, and though they still hunted in pack, they hunted more cautiously, cutting out heavy cows or crippled old bulls from the small moose-herds they ran across.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
