[
US
/ˈkætəɫ/
]
[ UK /kˈætəl/ ]
[ UK /kˈætəl/ ]
NOUN
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domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
so many head of cattle
seven thin and ill-favored kine
wait till the cows come home
a team of oxen
How To Use cattle In A Sentence
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Cattle seem to absorb less radioactivity than sheep, except for the milk, which is to be avoided at all costs because of the iodine.
- _Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
- These cattle are one of the purest breeds in Britain.
- Marry that fat son of a fat cattle dealer? She would die first!
- Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents.
- Ralphs et al. suggested no difference in locoweed consumption between native cattle and cattle introduced to locoweed under natural grazing conditions.
- It is well known that if a trait is heritable, the easiest and most practical way to change the trait in a herd of cattle is through selection of the sire.
- Another disease caused by a fungus is “actinomycosis”, which in cattle and other animals is called “lumpy jaw”. A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.