Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock
网页2018年12月6日 · A bull is intact. An ox is somthing Bubba is as strong as and people in exotic places use as draft animals, but Texans used horses or mules before tractors. A cow is female and cattle is the generic, as in “All hat and no cattle.” A bull calf is called that until he's a young bull; a heifer is a female who has not yet calved herself. –
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网页Jul 29, 2016. #2. Beeves is archaic. Don't use it. Oxen is the plural of ox: one ox, two oxen. Ox is widely used for these animals in the distant past (the Bible or Anglo-Saxon England, for example). For most people today, who live in cities and don't work with these animals, the male animal is a bull. We know about cows and bulls.
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网页British English. Apr 8, 2022. #3. "Bullock" is uised for an immature male animal, the male equivalent of "heifer". "Ox" is unusual in modern BrE (and I don't think it is used much in AmE either). It has a particular use for a castrated male draught animal, but we haven't had these in Britain for over fifty years, and they fell out of widespread ...
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网页2021年12月2日 · Yes, the one on the left is a bison. In the US we know the word ox (or plural oxen) but we mainly use it to describe animals in books or in other countries because oxen are used as beasts of burden (to pull carts or plow) and we do not use them in the United States because we have plenty of mechanical devices.
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网页2019年2月10日 · An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration makes the animals more docile. Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas.
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网页USA - English. Sep 10, 2017. #2. "Cattle" is wrong because it is used only for groups of animals, and never for just one animal. "Bull" would be correct only if you were certain the animal was male. "Ox" would be correct only if you were certain that it was a castrated male used as a draft animal. In everyday conversation, the word you could ...
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网页2012年5月22日 · The truth is that there is no noun in general use that refers equally to a cow or a bull. Zoologists use two terms. The first is 'ox', which is often restricted to animals of the genus Bos (i.e. the wild cattle - gaur, banteng, yak, aurochs, and kouprey - as well as domestic cattle). In popular use, though, the word 'ox' often refers to a ...
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网页BEEF, n. 1. An animal of the bovine genus, whether ox, bull, or cow ; but used of those which are full grown or nearly so. In this, which is the original sense, the word has a plural, beeves. 2. The flesh of an ox, bull, or cow, or of bovine animals generally, when killed.
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网页2008年5月20日 · Hi, all! I wonder, how You are saying these words in Your respective languages. The difference is that ox is castrate of a bull (Bos taurus in Latin) In English: ox or bullock (castrate) bull (not castrated) In German: ox - Ochse bull - Bulle In Czech: (Bos taurus = tur domácí) ox -...
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网页Nov 19, 2007. #7. An ox is a castrated bull that is used as a draft animal, rather than a source for food. Ordinarily, beef comes from a steer. You may notice a reflection of history in the terms used for animals and the meat that comes from them: specifically, the Norman Conquest of England. In the middle ages in England, the aristocracy spoke ...
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