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LIVESTOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any animals kept for use or profit
Synonyms:
farm animal; livestock; stock
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("livestock" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Domain member category:
carry (be able to feed)
Context examples:
It's a process similar to what happened tens of millions of years later with humans and domesticated crops and livestock.
(Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' by insects, NSF)
The researchers behind the study said that pesticides applied to Brazilian crops are contaminating food and water consumed by both people livestock.
(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)
Menhaden oil is used industrially in paint production and the tanning of leather as was as in livestock feeds.
(Menhaden Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
Escherichia coli and strain O111 can be isolated from livestock such as cattle.
(Escherichia coli strain O111, NCI Thesaurus)
Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
This mineral is used as a metal-impregnated catalyst, as a fertilizer, to control odors in livestock production and is used in animal feed, pet litter and horticultural applications.
(Erionite, NCI Thesaurus)
The introduction of pumps to ferry water from deep under the Kalahari to its surface has provided sustenance for livestock and fostered increasing herd sizes.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
It affects livestock and humans.
(Echinococcosis, NCI Thesaurus)
