| NOUN | animal | calf | young of domestic cattle |
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| body | calf, sura | the muscular back part of the shank | |
| substance | calf, calfskin | fine leather from the skin of a calf | |
| animal | calf | young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo / buffalo |
| Sounds | kae'f | |
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| Rhymes | allograph ... telegraph: 34 rhymes with aef... | |
| Meaning | young of domestic cattle. | |
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| Member of | cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus | domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age |
| Parts | veal, veau | meat from a calf |
| Narrower | dogie, dogy, leppy | motherless calf in a range herd of cattle |
| maverick | An unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf) | |
| Broader | young mammal | Any immature mammal |
| Spanish | becerro, ternero | |
| Catalan | jònec, vedell | |
| Meaning | The muscular back part of the shank. | |
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| Synonym | sura | |
| Part of | shank | The part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle |
| Parts | Achilles tendon, tendon of Achilles | A large tendon that runs from the heel to the calf |
| gastrocnemius, gastrocnemius muscle | The muscle in the back part of the leg that forms the greater part of the calf | |
| soleus, soleus muscle | A broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle | |
| Narrower | mid-calf | The middle of the calf |
| Broader | skeletal muscle, striated muscle | A muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton |
| Spanish | sura | |
| Meaning | fine leather from the skin of a calf. | |
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| Synonym | calfskin | |
| Narrower | box calf | black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts |
| Broader | leather | An animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning |
| Spanish | becerrillo, piel de becerro | |
| Catalan | pell de vedell | |
| Meaning | young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo / buffalo. | |
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| Broader | young mammal | Any immature mammal |
| Spanish | cachorro, novillo | |
| Catalan | cadell, cria | |
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