Calf

Noun

 * 1) A young cow or bull.
 * 2) A young elephant, seal or whale.
 * 3) A chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
 * 4) A small island, near a larger island.
 * 5) A cabless railroad engine
 * 6)  The back of the leg below the knee.
 * 7) The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

Adjectives for Calf

 * (young cow or elephant) capering; soft-eyed.
 * (anatomy) well-turned; unwearying; aching; pretty.

Verbs for Calf
beget—; corral—s; fatten—; fetter—; groom—; infect—; lasso—; offer—; pas¬ture—; pet—; rend—; sacrifice—; slaughter—; stable—; —bawls; —browses; —grazes; —kicks; —shies; —suckles; —whines.

Derived terms

 * bull calf
 * calfskin
 * heifer calf
 * kill the fatted calf

Related terms

 * calve

Thesaurus
ankle, aurochs, bayonet legs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, berg, birdling, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, bowlegs, buffalo, bull, bullock, carabao, catling, cattle, chick, chickling, chicky, cnemis, colt, cow, critter, cryosphere, cub, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, drumstick, duckling, fawn, firn, fledgling, floe, foal, foreleg, frazil, frozen water, fryer, gamb, gambrel, gigot, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, gosling, granular snow, ground ice, growler, ham, heifer, hind leg, hock, hornless cow, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jamb, jokul, kid, kine, kit, kitten, knee, lamb, lambkin, leg, leppy, limb, litter, lolly, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, nest, nestling, neve, nieve penitente, ox, oxen, pack ice, piglet, pigling, podite, polliwog, popliteal space, pullet, pup, puppy, scissor-legs, serac, shank, shelf ice, shin, shoat, sleet, slob, sludge, snow ice, snowberg, steer, stems, stirk, stot, stumps, tadpole, tarsus, trotters, weaner, whelp, wisent, yak, yeanling, yearling, zebu

Pronunciation

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