CATTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cattle mean? 

• CATTLE (noun)
  The noun CATTLE has 1 sense:

1. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

  Familiarity information: CATTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen

Context example:

a team of oxen

Hypernyms ("cattle" is a kind of...):

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

Meronyms (parts of "cattle"):

beef; boeuf (meat from an adult domestic bovine)

Meronyms (members of "cattle"):

calf (young of domestic cattle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cattle"):

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 ("cattle" 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)

Derivation:

cattleship (a cargo ship for the transport of livestock)

 Context examples 

A. lignieresii is part of the normal flora of the mucosa of the upper gastrointestinal tract and may cause tumorous abscesses in the tongue of cattle, sheep, horses, pigs and dogs.

(Actinobacillus lignieresii, NCI Thesaurus)

It affects animals such as cattle, sheep, and goats more often than people.

(Anthrax, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A few grains of cattle feed obtained from a feed sack.

(Biospecimen, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Taxonomic family which includes domestic cattle, goats, and sheep.

(Bovidae, NCI Thesaurus)

Other prion diseases include scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in cattle.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

The biogas units at Chikkaballapur consist of underground composters filled with cattle dung to generate gas, which is then piped to kitchen stoves installed in village households.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)

In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You were both talking of other things; of business, shows of cattle, or new drills—and might not you, in the confusion of so many subjects, mistake him?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The group based its survey on such tools as photographs, tourist sightings, safari guides, cattle herders, and village chiefs.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

By encapsulating coconut fatty acids into a starch-based formula, field trials showed this all-natural formula could provide protection to cattle against stable flies for up to 96 hours or 4 days.

(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)