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Main Entry:	calf [kaf, kahf] Show IPA/kæf, kɑf/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	leg between knee and ankle
Synonyms:	foreleg, shin

Main Entry:	cattle
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bovine animals
Synonyms:	beasts, bovid mammals, bulls, calves, cows, dogies, herd, livestock, longhorn, moo cows, oxen, shorthorns, stock, strays

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It continues below the knee where it branches off and carries blood to the muscles in the calf and foot.

Anything made with dairy has usually entailed the death of the calf or kid for which the mother cow/goat produced the milk.

They have begun to manage the entire production process, from seed and calf to packaged product, earning profits at every step.

It continues below the knee where it branches off and carries blood to the muscles in the calf and foot.

Anything made with dairy has usually entailed the death of the calf or kid for which the mother cow/goat produced the milk.

They have begun to manage the entire production process, from seed and calf to packaged product, earning profits at every step.

Lowered immunity may mean that a calf doesn't recover from a wound or minor infection.

The movement of the calf at this stage is a strong stimulus to the cow to get up and turn around and face the calf.

Such materials include connective tissue cells, called feeder layers, from mice and fetal calf serum.

Molly the calf seems to have escaped the slaughterhouse permanently.

As the calf gets larger, after all, it takes more feed to sustain it.

Females reproduce every two and a half to five years, and each calf starts living on its own when it's about three years old.

Those committed to their long term health who also tensed their calf muscles were more likely to drink more of the vinegar.

Shockingly, he killed nine rare white rhinoceroses, including four cows and a calf.

Each leg was missing its fibula, the long, thin bone that anchors the calf muscle and forms the outside of the ankle.

Gentle calf muscle stretches may also help reduce pain and spasms.

Their single calf does not live on its own until it is about three years old.

The killing of the calf is connected with the production of milk.

Howard planted one camera on his chest for confiscation and strapped another to his calf.

Achilles tendinitis, inflammation of the large tendon that connects your calf muscle to your heel.

Mothers give birth while standing, a jolting welcome for the calf.

The other will be farther down your leg, either in your calf or ankle.

Elk cows give birth to a single calf in the early summer.

Cows have one calf each year, which can stand after only a few minutes and move on with its mother by the next day.

Cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years.

Females give birth to one calf after a nine-month pregnancy.

Jones focuses on whether the presence of a calf affects female behavior.

By pushing heels up, such shoes in effect shorten the calf muscles.

Witnesses said both attacks, less than a week apart, appeared to be a result of the moose's protecting her calf.

It tucks behind its wearer's knee and has extensions that strap around the front of his calf and his thigh.

It is put on the inoculation lance which is used to make long, shallow cuts on the belly of a calf.

If they butchered the calf and put the meat in the freezer, the power might fail and the meat spoil.

Of course the herders don't want the calf to die-it represents food and money.

Fitts' team tested muscle fibers from calf biopsies of nine astronauts, taken before and after their space station stay.

Metallic calf sandals include a woven leather ankle-strap flat, with an open toe, open heel and a platform sole.

These three moves target the calf and the front of the hip.

Nothing more controversial about this than a nose job or even butt and calf implants i've heard of men getting.

The first post-Chernobyl calf was born at the farm around.

The lice move from mother to calf and among whales in close contact with each other.

The cat would be no match for an adult elephant, but it might kill a calf.

The calf would get closer and closer, and the mother would usher it away.

In a gully lay the rotting bodies of a cow and a newborn calf.

If it is a mother, its calf swims wildly beside her, doomed to its own motherless death later on.

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