| 单词 | small cattle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall cattle small cattle n. (originally) livestock smaller in size than oxen, such as calves or sheep; (later) bovine animals of a small breed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > below size of oxen small cattle1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings iv. 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty small catell, and an hundreth shepe. 1593 Benefits Observ. Fish-daies (single sheet) The number of Beefes aforesaid,..and other small Cattell, as Calues, Sheepe, and Lambes innumerable. 1798 G. Papendick tr. A. von Kotzebue Stranger x. 17 Perhaps the king of Spain has heard of your excellent breed of small cattle. 1856 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1855 15 274 In the Native stock it is I believe commonly conceded that small cattle afford the most delicate and sweetest meat. 1993 Weekly Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. The breed is not without its detractors, with mainstream Angus breeders claiming the small cattle are pushing the industry in the wrong direction. < as lemmas |
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