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DAIRY CATTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dairy cattle mean?
• DAIRY CATTLE (noun)
The noun DAIRY CATTLE has 1 sense:
1. cattle that are reared for their milk
Familiarity information: DAIRY CATTLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cattle that are reared for their milk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker
Hypernyms ("dairy cattle" is a kind of...):
Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dairy cattle"):
Ayrshire (hardy breed of dairy cattle from Ayr, Scotland)
Brown Swiss (large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland)
Jersey (a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey)
milking shorthorn (breed evolved from shorthorn beef cattle)
Friesian; Holstein; Holstein-Friesian (a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland)
Guernsey (breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey)
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