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calf

[kaf, kahf] / kæf, kɑf /
NOUN
leg between knee and ankle
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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I wish he had included the most common kind of pepperpot soup, which was based on tripe and calf or ox feet and usually featured small flour dumplings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Following the tracks, he came across a female elephant carrying a dead calf, its leg wedged between her tusk and trunk.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A rare observation of a humpback whale mother remaining beside her dead calf is offering researchers a closer look at how these animals may respond to loss.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

He was also in the squad that won the T20 World Cup in 2022, but missed the end stages of the tournament with a calf problem.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The robot was an excellent mimic, and she began crying out in the sad voice of a wounded calf.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Researchers recognised the elephant as a female who had lost a calf several years earlier and said she had previously picked up dead calves belonging to other females.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

In the 1870s, a Pend d’Oreille Indian named Walking Coyote captured a few bison calves from northern Montana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The observation adds to the small number of documented cases involving deceased calves in baleen whales.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Once farmers and ranchers arrived in California, their stock of calves and pigs and crops were a bear buffet, and that got bears killed much more often than any unprovoked attacks on humans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

I stretch my feet, calves, quads, abs, arms, neck, everything.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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