What Is Cattle

One head of cattle is a valid though periphrastic way to refer to one animal of indeterminate or unknown age and sex.

Black cat x reader. The animals most often included under the term are the western or european domesticated cattle as well as the indian and african domesticated cattle. It is a plurale tantum. Cattle domesticated bovine farm animals that are raised for their meat milk or hides or for draft purposes.

Ruminant mammals of the genus bos that have been domesticated and are often raised for meat and dairy products. For many people only gendered words such as bull and cow are used for adults calf for the young etc though especially children will use cow for all three. Thus one may refer to three cattle or some cattle but not one cattle.

Middle english catel property. Livestock farm animals with the exception of poultry. Cows steers bulls and oxen are cattle.

There is no universally accepted singular generic word for cattle although the term cattlebeast is used in some regions and there is the archaic neat. Similar wild or domesticated bovine animals such as anoas or gaurs. Humans especially when viewed contemptuously or as a mob.

Cattle can only be used in the plural and not in the singular. Cattle definition is domesticated quadrupeds held as property or raised for use. Bovine animals on a farm or ranch.

A group of animals that includes cows buffalo and bison that are often kept for their milk or. Cattle definition bovine animals especially domesticated members of the genus bos.