BEEF CATTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beef cattle mean? 

• BEEF CATTLE (noun)
  The noun BEEF CATTLE has 1 sense:

1. cattle that are reared for their meat

  Familiarity information: BEEF CATTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEEF CATTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cattle that are reared for their meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

beef; beef cattle

Hypernyms ("beef cattle" is a kind of...):

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beef cattle"):

longhorn; Texas longhorn (long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States)

Santa Gertrudis (Brahman and shorthorn crossbreed of red cattle; hardy in hot regions)

Aberdeen Angus; Angus; black Angus (black hornless breed from Scotland)

Charolais (large white or cream-colored breed from France)

Durham; shorthorn (English breed of short-horned cattle)

Galloway (breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland)

Hereford; whiteface (hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States)

beefalo; cattalo (hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds)