domestic cattle
Beef and dairy
Domestic cattle are bovines bred and raised by humans for meat, milk, leather, and labor.
The term distinguishes farm-raised animals from wild relatives like bison or water buffalo.
Cattle have been domesticated for thousands of years and remain central to agriculture worldwide: The ranch runs three hundred head of domestic cattle.
A single animal is a cow, bull, steer, or calf depending on sex and age.
- bovineOf the cattle family
- beef productionRaising bovines for meat
- dairy cowBovine kept for milk
- dairy farmingLivestock husbandry for milk
- sacred cowExempt from criticism
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- wild cattleAfrican buffalo, aurochs, bison, water buffalo, wisent
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Extinct wild cattle species
American bison · wisent · African buffalo · wild animals · wildlife
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Undomesticated fauna
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