1 a large female animal that is kept on farms to produce milk 母牛;乳牛:
to milk a cow挤牛奶a herd of cows一群母牛
Cow is often used for both male and female animals. The special word for a male is bull. A male that cannot produce any young and which was used in past times for pulling heavy loads is an ox. A young cow is a calf. A number of cows together can be called cattle. Look at the note at meat. cow常用以兼指公牛及母牛。bull特指公牛。不会生育、过去用来拉车的公牛叫做ox。小牛叫calf。牛群称cattle。参看meat的注释。
2 the adult female of certain large animals, for example elephants 某些大型动物的雌性(如母象)
cow1/kaU; kaʊ/n [C]1 a large animal that is kept on farms and used to produce milk or meat [→ bull] 奶牛﹔牛: dairy cows 乳牛a herd of cows 一群牛see picture at见 FARM1 图2 till the cows come home for ever 永远
cow2v [T] to frighten someone in order to make them do something 威胁﹐恐吓: The children were cowed into obedience. 孩子们被吓得服服贴贴。
cowcowcowscowedcowingnouna big female farm animal that is kept for its milk or meatword buildingThe male is called a bull and a young cow is called a calf. Meat from a cow is called beef and meat from a calf is called veal.