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heifer

/hef-er/US // ˈhɛf ər //UK // (ˈhɛfə) //

小母牛,小牛,小牝牛,母牛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a young cow over one year old that has not produced a calf.

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Examples

  • Wendy spent the engagement clinically inseminating prize heifers and anticipating an entire life of the same.

  • "You and Chuck go home and make a baby and name it Lyndon and I'll give you a heifer," Johnson had said.

  • When ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper tried to ask you some questions, you said you were “going to meet a heifer first.”

  • Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

  • Moreover, they almost invariably bear heifer calves, so that the flock increases rapidly.

  • I will make Smoker seize the heifer if necessary; at all events, he will keep her at bay—that is, if she is here.

  • They advanced cautiously into the thicket, following the track of the heifer, and at last came upon her.

  • The calf became quite tame, and as the heifer perceived that the calf was quiet, she became more quiet herself.