| 单词 | calf |
| 释义 | calf (once / 461 pages) 1n 2n The word calf can mean either a baby cow or bull, or the area of the back of your leg between your ankle and knee. Cattle are not the only animals whose babies are called calves. You can use the word to mean a baby whale, baby elephant, camel, bison, elk, giraffe, gnu, hippopotamus, moose, ox, reindeer, rhinoceros, and yak. If a large piece of ice breaks off of a glacier or iceberg, well that's a calf too! If you want to strengthen your calves, doing heel raises while holding a calf is an interesting way to go about it. WORD FAMILYcalf: calfs, calves, mid-calf USAGE EXAMPLESHe’s dealt with a sore right calf but showed no ill effects while smoothly eluding Detroit’s pass rush all night. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) North, as the Packers did in the 2014 finale, when quarterback Aaron Rodgers played through a calf injury to beat Detroit. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The calf is the second endangered species to be born at the zoo this month. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n young of domestic cattle Hypo|Hyper dogie, dogy, leppy motherless calf in a range herd of cattle maverickan unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it young mammal any immature mammal 2n young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo Hyper young mammal any immature mammal 3n fine leather from the skin of a calf 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper calfskin box calf black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts leather an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning n the muscular back part of the shank Syn|Hypo|Hyper sura mid-calf the middle of the calf; half way between the knee and ankle skeletal muscle, striated muscle a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes |
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