calves
Meaning of calves
- a young bovine animal, especially a domestic cow or bull in its first year.
a heifer calf
- a floating piece of ice detached from an iceberg.
Old English cælf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kalf and German Kalb .
plural noun- the fleshy part at the back of a person's leg below the knee.
the calf muscles
Middle English: from Old Norse kálfi, of unknown origin.
verb, 3rd person present- (of cows and certain other large animals) give birth to a calf.
Galloway cows have wide pelvises and calve easily
calving takes place in the spring
- (of an iceberg or glacier) split and shed (a smaller mass of ice).
glaciers were calving icebergs directly into the sea
Old English calfian, from cælf ‘calf’.
Information about calves
Hyphenation of calves
calves
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- calves is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of calves
- French: mollets
- Spanish: pantorrillas
- Italian: polpacci
Anagrams of calves
cavels, claves, scavel, sclave
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