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# livestock

«livestock» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Animals kept on a farm for food, milk, wool or work, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (livestock — uncountable, used with a plural or singular verb)

### meaning for a pupil

Animals kept on a farm for food, milk, wool or work, such as cows, sheep, pigs, goats and chickens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: farms raise livestock; livestock need food, water and shelter. In maths problems: a farmer has livestock and you count legs or heads. Phrases: raise livestock, livestock farmer, livestock market.

### examples

- Presumably, the anatomy of slaughtered livestock would have been fairly familiar to many writers and readers of the time, while blessedly few indeed would have had first-hand knowledge of human innards.] Like what did He make them? (A city) [strife]. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x1)
- The farmer raises livestock and grows wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x2)
- Livestock need water every day in hot weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x3)
- Cows, sheep and pigs are livestock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x4)
- The livestock were moved to higher ground before the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x5)
- We saw prize livestock at the country show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x6)
- A farm has 12 sheep and 8 cows, so it has 20 head of livestock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no "a livestock" or "livestocks". Count with "head of livestock" or name the animals. Pets are not livestock. In head-and-leg problems, cows and sheep have 4 legs, chickens 2.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «livestock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/livestock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.