Cattle Word Search
This Cattle word search hides 12 words on a 15×15 grid — the habitats, species, and behaviors of an animal group. Trace each one with a finger or mouse and it locks in as soon as the whole word is covered. No signup, no download.
Words to find: HERD, CATTLE, BULL, CALF, BEEF, STEER, HEIFER, OXEN, PASTURE, GRAZE, RUMINANT, UDDER.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Cattle word list, defined
- HERD /hɜːd/ (British); /hɝd/ (US) · noun and verb
- As a noun, a herd is a group of animals, especially grazing or herd-forming mammals, living or moving together; it can also refer to a large, undifferentiated group of people. As a verb, it means to gather, drive, or move animals as a group, often with the sense of controlling or directing their movement. Related: group, flock, drove, pack.
- CATTLE /ˈkæt.əl/ · noun
- Large domesticated ruminants, especially cows and bulls of the species Bos taurus, raised for meat, milk, or labor; also used figuratively to refer to people treated as a herd or with contempt. Related: livestock, herd, stock, kine.
- BULL /bʊl/ · noun, verb
- An adult male of cattle or related animals such as the elephant, whale, and seal. As a verb, to bull means to push or shove forcefully. Related: steer, ox, boar.
- CALF /kæf/ · noun
- A young cow, bull, or other bovine animal; also the fleshy back part of the human leg below the knee. Related: youngling, yearling, heifer.
- BEEF /biːf/ · noun (also verb, informal)
- The flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, eaten as food; informally, a complaint or grievance. Related: complaint, grievance, quarrel, meat.
- STEER /stɪər/ (British); /stɪr/ (American) · verb; noun
- As a verb, to guide, direct, or influence the course or direction of something, especially a vehicle or course of action. As a noun, the act or means of steering, or a castrated male bovine. Related: guide, direct, pilot, navigate.
- HEIFER /ˈheɪfər/ · noun
- A young female bovine that has not yet calved, especially one raised for breeding or meat production. Related: young cow, female calf, cow calf, yearling cow.
- OXEN /ˈɒksən/ (British); /ˈɑːksən/ (US) · noun (plural)
- Oxen are domesticated bovines, especially castrated adult bulls, traditionally used to pull ploughs, carts, and other heavy loads. The word can also refer figuratively to patient, hardworking people. Related: bullocks, draft cattle, work cattle, beasts of burden.
- PASTURE /ˈpɑːstʃər/ (US); /ˈpɑːstʃə/ (UK) · noun and verb
- As a noun, pasture means land where livestock graze, or the grass used as food for grazing animals. As a verb, it means to put livestock on land to graze, or to graze on such land. Related: pastureland, grazing land, meadow, grassland.
- GRAZE /ɡreɪz/ · verb
- To feed on grass or other pasture, or to move lightly along or touch something briefly. It can also mean to scrape or injure the skin lightly. Related: browse, crop, brush, skim.
- RUMINANT /ˈruːmɪnənt/ · noun and adjective
- A ruminant is a hoofed mammal that chews cud, including cattle, sheep, goats, and deer. As an adjective, ruminant means relating to or characteristic of these animals or their digestive process. Related: cud-chewer, ruminating animal, cud-chewing animal.
- UDDER /ˈʌdər/ · noun
- The external mammary organ of a cow or other milk-giving mammal, especially the fleshy structure containing the teats through which milk is released. Related: teat, pap, breast, mammary gland.
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