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What is the noun for calves?

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calf

A young cow or bull.
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
A young elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals).
A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
A small island, near a larger island.
A cabless railroad engine.
(informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Synonyms:

leg, shin, foreleg, lower leg, dogie, heifer, maverick, veal, young bovine, young heifer, baby cow, young bull, young cow … more

Examples:

“I see a runner's calf muscles flexing as they sprint towards the finish line.”

“The farmer admired his calf, a lively and adorable bovine only a few months old.”

“A common sprain injury is a torn Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel.”

calving

The act of giving birth to a calf
The breaking away of a mass of ice from an iceberg, glacier etc.

calf

(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
Synonyms:

leg, shin, foreleg, lower leg, dogie, heifer, maverick, veal, young bovine, young heifer, baby cow, young bull, young cow … more

Examples:

“I see a runner's calf muscles flexing as they sprint towards the finish line.”

“The farmer admired his calf, a lively and adorable bovine only a few months old.”

“A common sprain injury is a torn Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel.”

calfskin

A fine leather made from the hide of a calf.
Examples:

“With a squeal of excitement, she dove into her calfskin tote and snatched out her cell, her face lighting up happily.”

“Mine is made of black calfskin leather and is a smaller size, but you get the picture.”

“Another value added to the cows was the fact that while the rest of Europe used manuscripts made from sheepskin, in Ireland it was calfskin.”

calfflesh

(nonstandard) The meat or flesh of a calf; veal.
Synonyms:

calfmeat, veal, calf meat

Examples:

“The restaurant offered a wide selection of dishes, including roasted calfflesh served with fresh vegetables.”

calfling

A small, young, or miniature calf.
Examples:

“Nick observes the whale both with her calfling, and with Marty, but he does not communicate with her.”

calveren

Obsolete or dialectal plural of calf.

calfs

alternative plural of calf

calfskins

plural of calfskin

calflings

plural of calfling

calvings

plural of calving
Examples:

“I've helped enough calvings to know that sometimes, you even have to pull the calves out of the cow with rope and rig.”

“Thousands of ice shards from this and previous calvings hissed as they were buffeted by the waves.”

“Without regular calvings when the cow produces milk to feed her calf, it would be impossible to produce the desired amount of milk.”

calves

plural of calf
Synonyms:

cattle, cows, livestock, oxen, stock, beasts, bulls, bovines, neats, herd, kines, bullocks, heifers, steers, dogies, longhorns, shorthorns, strays, bovid mammals, bovine animals, moo cows, beef, bosses, bovine, domestic animals, domesticated animals, pigs, farm animals, sheep, horses, veal, mavericks, wagyu, yaks, buffaloes, beasts of burden, draft animals, draught animals, herds, goats, flocks, flock, hogs, animals, fowl, swine … more

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