cattle - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"calf - young of domestic cattle Bos, genus Bos - wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini bovine - any of various members of the genus Bos ox - an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus stirk - yearling heifer or bullock bull - uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle cow, moo-cow - female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term" red poll - hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle Africander - tall large-horned humped cattle of South Africa; used for meat or draft Devon - red dual-purpose cattle of English origin grade - a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed boeuf, beef - meat from an adult domestic bovine herd - a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans |