calve
Bear farm young
To calve is to give birth to a calf—used of cows, whales, elephants, and other large mammals.
By extension, glaciers and icebergs calve when chunks break off and fall into the water: We watched the glacier calve into the sea.
The word shares a root with calf.
glacial
Floating glacial fragment
- glacierSlow-moving ice mass
- ice shelfFloating glacial extension
- floeDrifting sea ice
- crevasseDeep glacial fissure
berg · tabular · pack ice · ice field · fjord · ablation · firn · moraine
iceberg
Floating glacial fragment
crevasse · berg · tabular · pack ice · ice field · fjord · ablation · firn · moraine · retreat
whale
Huge sea mammal
moose · elk · caribou · deer · antelope · hippo · rhino · wildebeest · buffalo · offspring
cow
Female bovine
- heiferChildless female cattle
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- herdGrazing animals together
livestock · dairy · ranching · bull · pasture · weaning · stockyard · breeding · udder · colostrum
- animal reproductionmating, give birth, fertilization, copulation, spawning
- geology verbserode, deposit, subduct, uplift, fault
- split offbreak up, spinoff, spin-off, detach, sever
- calf bonesLower leg skeleton
- calf muscleRear lower leg muscle
- golden calfSymbol of misplaced worship
- newborn calf
- calf raisesExercise lifting heels repeatedly
- golden calvesWorshipped metal bovine statues