LIVESTOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does livestock mean? 

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

1. any animals kept for use or profit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVESTOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any animals kept for use or profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

farm animal; livestock; stock

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 

"Low levels of antibiotics are often found as environmental contaminants, for example, from widespread use in raising livestock," said Raghuveer Parthasarathy, one of the study's authors.

(Impacts of low-dose exposure to antibiotics unveiled in zebrafish gut, National Science Foundation)

It affects livestock, birds and humans.

(Coccidiosis, NCI Thesaurus)

E. coli O157 was isolated from livestock and is a food borne pathogen that causes diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in humans.

(Escherichia coli strain O157, NCI Thesaurus)

The use of biogas — mainly methane and carbon dioxide released from the anaerobic digestion of organic matter such as food, crops, or livestock manure — as a fuel has long been popular in India.

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

The effort, which was supported by the National Pork Board, arose from a need to provide livestock producers with alternatives to using dietary antibiotics as a growth-promoting agent in swine.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Livestock, particularly horses, have been identified as a significant threat to panda survival.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Farmers resort to antibiotics, generally administered through animal feed or low-dose injections, to improve nutrition and hygiene for their livestock.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

E. coli O26 was isolated from livestock and is a highly virulent serotype causing diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome with multiple complications in humans.

(Escherichia coli strain O26, NCI Thesaurus)

Burning forest to make land suitable for farming or to rear livestock is a widespread practice in many parts of the developing world.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)

The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising.

(Agriculture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)