calf
noun/kæf/
Frequency rank: #5,950 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a young cow or bull in its first year of life.
Example sentence
The farmer smiled when he saw that his cow had given birth to a healthy calf that morning.
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