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Cattle Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cattle?
[n] domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cattle: Bos taurus | cows | kine | oxen Related Terms | Find terms related to Cattle: Alderney | and fish | animal kingdom | animal life | Animalia | animality | aurochs | Ayrshire | beasts | beasts of field | beasts of prey | beef | beef cattle | beeves | big game | birds | bison | bossy | bovine | bovine animal | Brahman | brute creation | buffalo | bull | bullock | calf | carabao | chaff | Chiroptera | cow | critter | dairy cattle | dairy cow | Dexter | dogie | domestic animals | dregs | dregs of society | Durham | Dutch Belted | fauna | furry creatures | Galloway | game | heifer | Hereford | Holstein | hornless cow | Indian buffalo | Jersey | kine | Lagomorpha | leppy | livestock | Longhorn | maverick | milch cow | milcher | milk cow | milker | muley cow | muley head | musk-ox | neat | offscourings | offscum | ox | oxen | Polled Hereford | Primates | raff | Red Poll | Red Polled | riffraff | Rodentia | rubbish | Santa Gertrudis | scum | Shorthorn | small game | sordes | steer | stirk | stock | stot | Sussex | swinish multitude | trash | vermin | Welsh | Welsh Black | West Highland | wild animals | wildlife | wisent | yak | yearling | zebu See Also | Africander | beef | beef cattle | boeuf | Bos | bovine | bull | bullock | calf | cow | dairy cattle | dairy cow | Devon | genus Bos | herd | milch cow | milcher | milk cow | milker | moo-cow | ox | red poll | steer | stirk | Welsh | Welsh Black Cattle In Webster's Dictionary \Cat"tle\ (k[a^]t"t'l), n. pl. [OE. calet, chatel, goods,
property, OF. catel, chatel, LL. captale, capitale, goods,
property, esp. cattle, fr. L. capitals relating to the head,
chief; because in early ages beasts constituted the chief
part of a man's property. See {Capital}, and cf. {Chattel}.]
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including
all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules,
asses, and swine.
{Belted cattle}, {Black cattle}. See under {Belted}, {Black}.
{Cattle guard}, a trench under a railroad track and alongside
a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to
prevent cattle from getting upon the track.
{cattle louse} (Zo["o]l.), any species of louse infecting
cattle. There are several species. The {H[ae]matatopinus
eurysternus} and {H. vituli} are common species which suck
blood; {Trichodectes scalaris} eats the hair.
{Cattle plague}, the rinderpest; called also {Russian cattle
plague}.
{Cattle range}, or {Cattle run}, an open space through which
cattle may run or range. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
{Cattle show}, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes
for the encouragement of stock breeding; -- usually
accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and
domestic products and of implements.
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