OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4104

calf

/kɑːf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
becerra • becerro • ternera • ternero • vaquilla
A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
And Goldenhorns calved. A great day in the wilderness, a joy and a delight. They gave her flour-wash, and Isak himself saw to it there was no stint of flour, though he had carried…
alevín • ballenata • ballenato • cervatilla • cervatillo • cría • elefantita • elefantito • polluela • polluelo
The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
témpano
A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack Our swell ceases with this wind, and the floes seem disposed to come together again; but the…
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