calve 的 2 个定义
calved, calv·ing.
- to give birth to a calf: The cow is expected to calve tomorrow.
- to break up or splinter so as to produce a detached piece.
calved, calv·ing.
- to give birth to.
- to break off or detach: The glacier calved an iceberg.
更多calve例句
- When perched on this mound, called a moraine, tidewater glaciers flow more slowly and calve fewer icebergs, which allows them to advance even in unfavorable climates.
- Seeing your first iceberg calve makes you realize how small you are and what your place on the planet actually is.
- Some come to see calving glaciers and climate change in action.
- Farmers do not kill their breeding ewes in March, nor butcher cows that are to calve in a month; it does not pay.
- They will continue to give milk till eight months gone with calf, or till they calve again, if you continue to milk them.
- In taking some calve's-foot jelly from the fire, she had inadvertently overturned the boiling liquid.
- They have milk at all times, and may be milked all the year, excepting four or five days before they calve.
- Fin whales calve and breed in winter, mostly in temperate waters.