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heifer

[hef-er] / ˈhɛf ər /


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The heifer has now been returned home, and is said to be "fit and well".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

His brother, David Workman, killed in a fall off a cliff as he rode a mule in the dark in search of a lost heifer.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Boyle Reservoir, a black heifer lying on her side in the dusty brown earth heaved a tiny head sticky with amniotic fluid from her birth canal.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023

On that October morning in 2018, Ethan found his father dead in the heifer shed, his raincoat draped neatly over a door nearby.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

He would get out of bed and go help the heifer deliver her baby.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson