cattle
(a group name; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
cattle — a bull; a cow & a calf
a name given to the large domestic grass-eating mammal, especially cows and bulls, found all over the places where people live
dairy cattle – cows kept for their milk;
house cow – single cow (or a few, sometimes) kept in the yard of a house for the supply of milk to the people of that house;
beef cattle – bulls, calves and cows kept for their meat
female ~~ cow
baby ~~ calf
group ~~ herd, drove, drift, mob
voice ~~ moo (cows); bellow (bulls); low (both)
home ~~ (man-made) shed/cow shed; stockyard; corral (in western America); pen, cow pen (an enclosure with wooden poles all around, but without a covering above)
Hindu devotees worshipping a cow Cattle are a part of life for most people in the world. Cattle are kept for their meat, milk and skin (hide) and/or as property. In some places in Asia, a family of five can survive keeping a single house cow! In parts of Asia, especially in India, cattle are worshipped, especially the cow, as a god or goddess or as a vehicle of a god or goddess. The dried dung of these animals is used in domestic cooking fires, and piles of the dung are made into manure!
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