lambnoun [ C or U ]
uk/læm/us/læm/B1 a young sheep, or the flesh of a young sheep eaten as meat:
lambs gambolling about in the fields
lamb chops
roast lamb
See also
mutton
More examples
- I've bought a shoulder of lamb for Sunday lunch.
- She bought a side of lamb from the butcher's shop.
- Roast the lamb on a spit.
- We saw a lamb being born.
- I cooked a lamb casserole.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal young
- baby
- bugger
- calf
- calves
- chick
- colt
- fawn
- fledgling
- foal
- frogspawn
- fry
- gosling
- heifer
- litter
- offspring
- owlet
- peachick
- piglet
- pup
- spawn
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Sheep & goats
Kinds of meat
Idiom(s)
Lamb of God
like a lamb to the slaughter
lambverb [ I ]
uk/læm/us/læm/(of a sheep) to give birth to lambs
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal reproduction
- asexual
- asexual reproduction
- bird
- breed
- breeding
- egg
- embryo
- embryonic
- estrogen
- fertilize
- incubate
- infertile
- inseminate
- mate
- ova
- reproduction
- seminal
- spawning ground
- spermatozoon
- the birds and the bees idiom
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