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What does cattle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cattle? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
  2. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
  3. (pejorative) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
  4. (obsolete, English law, sometimes countable) chattel
  5. (uncountable, rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
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The warble fly lays eggs on cattle in the Spring and Summer, and the larvae enter the animal to migrate through it.
The Minister urged herdowners to inspect all their cattle for warbles on a regular and systematic basis from now until August.
Thieves in Bushenyi district are giving cattle waragi to make it easier to steal them.
The colours each had several meanings, some of which were abstract ideas, some concrete as in the cattle and sheep example.
Both pathogens can colonise the intestines of beef cattle and get into the food chain during slaughter at the abattoir.
The old shovel then fell apart and the wallaroo turned on Zac, Mrs Sinton's cattle dog.

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