cattle
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- noun
- /ˈkætəl/
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- Black Angus is one of the premier breeds of cattle for high quality beef.
- a herd of cattle
- dairy cattle
- sheep and cattle
And you don't grow cattle, I suppose, but you keep them.
- And you don't grow cattle, I suppose, but you keep them.
- They cultivated grain, but they were more cattle raisers.
- See, you must raise only cattle and sheep.
- Even cattle ranchers are not excited about shipping their cattle to feedlots.
- They're basically huge, huge cesspools near industrial cattle and hog operations.
- I own cattle. I own, I own Wagyu cattle
- So you've got cattle, you have pigs, you have ducks, you've got chickens.
- It had everything, a great environment, a rich land, herds of cattle seemed to have everything.
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The Plains produce significant quantities of cattle, wheat, cotton, sheep, coal, oil, natural gas, and metals.
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After the drought, the rancher had to sell some of his cattle due to lack of food.
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However, the price of cattle is flat or down.
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So the price of cattle just went down.
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I mean, it's certainly a lot easier to store gold than cattle, you know, or oil.
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I invest in cattle and food.
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The bird flu has spread to cattle in the United States.
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See, you must raise only cattle and sheep.
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I am surrounded by cattle.
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On a stock card, the number of cattle, births/deaths, and animal movement are recorded.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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A large farm animal like a cow or ox
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Animals kept on farms for milk or meat
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An old word for a group of cows or cattle
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- Archaic
A very contagious disease of cattle that usually kills them with fever and severe diarrhea
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Etymology
Cattle comes from an old word for 'property' and goes back to the Latin root caput meaning 'head', the same root as capital. People once counted farm animals by the number of 'heads', so animals were a kind of 'wealth', and that is why cattle now means the farm animals kept for milk, meat, or work.