beef cattle

  • 51beef — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ fresh ▪ lean ▪ fatty ▪ tender ▪ tough ▪ choice ( …

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  • 52cattle show — 1. an exhibition of prize cattle by cattle breeders, as at a livestock exposition. 2. Informal. a public appearance by the contenders for a political office, a job, or the like, at which they may be judged by voters, prospective employers, etc.… …

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  • 53beef — I. noun (plural beefs or beeves) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French beof, bef ox, beef, from Latin bov , bos head of cattle more at cow Date: 14th century 1. the flesh of an adult domestic bovine (as a steer or cow) used as food 2. a.… …

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  • 54Beef tapeworm — Taenia saginata, the most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw or rare beef. Can grow to be 12 25 feet (3.6 7.5 m) long in the human intestine. Also known as the African tapeworm. * * * beef tapeworm n …

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  • 55beef tapeworm — Tapeworm Tape worm , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to T[ae]nia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the… …

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  • 56beef farm — A farm where cattle are kept for the production of beef …

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  • 57beef — Meat from the carcasses of cattle; an animal fit for use as beef, a steer, a heifer, an ox, or a cow. Davis v State, 40 Tex 135 …

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  • 58beef tapeworm — noun : an unarmed tapeworm (Taenia saginata) that infests the human intestine as an adult, has a cysticercus larva that develops in cattle, and is contracted by man through ingestion of the larva in raw or rare beef …

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  • 59beef — n. Flesh of neat cattle …

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  • 60cattle — n 1. livestock, stock, domestic animals; cows, beef, neat, Archaic. kine. 2.Disparaging. rabble, rout, ruck, canaille, riffraff, rubbish, dregs, scum, scum of the earth, dregs of society …

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