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BEEF CATTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cattle that are reared for their meat
Synonyms:
beef; beef cattle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("beef cattle" is a kind of...):
Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beef cattle"):
longhorn; Texas longhorn (long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States)
Santa Gertrudis (Brahman and shorthorn crossbreed of red cattle; hardy in hot regions)
Aberdeen Angus; Angus; black Angus (black hornless breed from Scotland)
Charolais (large white or cream-colored breed from France)
Durham; shorthorn (English breed of short-horned cattle)
Galloway (breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland)
Hereford; whiteface (hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States)
beefalo; cattalo (hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds)
