Cows 奶牛
cows[ noun ]
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
<noun.animal>
so many head of cattlewait till the cows come home
seven thin and ill-favored kine
a team of oxen
Cow \Cow\, n.; pl. {Cows} (kouz); old pl. {Kine} (k[imac]n).
[OE. cu, cou, AS. c[=u]; akin to D. koe, G. kuh, OHG. kuo,
Icel. k[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ko, L. bos ox, cow, Gr. boy^s, Skr.
g[=o]. [root]223. Cf. {Beef}, {Bovine}, {Bucolic}, {Butter},
{Nylghau}.]
1. The mature female of bovine animals.
2. The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals,
etc.
cows \cows\ n. pl. [pl. of cow.]
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; as, wait till the cows come home.
Syn: cattle, kine, oxen, Bos taurus.
[WordNet 1.5]
- "Cows are like wood stoves," Brenden said while untying roles of hay. "The colder it gets, the more you have to feed them." At least 73 deaths have been blamed on weather since the cold wave hit Tuesday.
- Cows and horses dapple the flanks of rolling hills.
- Cows sent out from time to time by the Dutch government died of tropical diseases. Many settlers left for other parts of Brazil or went back to the Netherlands and the co-operative was on the verge of bankruptcy in the early 1960s.
- "Cows aren't expected to study algebra," he said.
- Cows and hogs produced an additional 235,000 tons of manure.