| 单词 | livestock |
| 释义 | livestock (once / 2290 pages) n The animals you find on a farm are collectively called livestock. Your herd of dairy goats are livestock, but your toy poodle is just a pet. Livestock are distinguished from other animals by the fact that they're domesticated and raised for food or money — if you get wool, milk, meat, or eggs from animals, they're livestock. The word comes from the sense of stock that means "supply for future use" or "sum of money; from the 1500s, this word was also used to mean "movable property of a farm." WORD FAMILYlivestock USAGE EXAMPLESThe declaration says a significant amount of livestock was lost in the storm. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Some livestock fares poorly, though other domesticated animals romp happily into the wild. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Yet the president’s order allows locals who currently use the area to graze their livestock or extract minerals to keep their resource privileges. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) n any animals kept for use or profit Syn|Hyper farm animal, stock eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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