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# calf

«calf» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young cow or bull** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a calf, calves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A calf is a young cow or bull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#m1)

2) A calf is the young of some other large animals, like elephants, whales, giraffes and deer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#m2)

3) Your calf is the back part of your leg between the knee and the ankle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science life-cycle lessons, a calf is a baby mammal that drinks its mother's milk. On farms, calves are born in spring. In health and PE, calf muscles help you walk, run and jump; stretch them before exercise. Phrases: calf muscle, calf stretch, cow and calf, an elephant calf.

### examples

- The cow licked her new calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x1)
- A baby elephant is called a calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x2)
- The whale and her calf swam together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x3)
- I pulled a muscle in my calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x4)
- Stretch your calves before running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x5)
- The farm has twenty calves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x6)
- I had another calf killed; this one was led away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calf/#x7)

### note

Plural calves (f changes to ves), like half/halves. The l is silent: say "kaaf". Calf (leg) and calf (baby animal) are different meanings of the same word.

### In the corpora

- [A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/8/)
- [Musk oxen form a ring facing outwards, with calves in the middle, so wolves meet only a wall of horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/17/)
- [When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/4/)
- [A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for her calf.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/1/)
- [Moose in Alaska and Canada are huge and can charge and kick, so they can be dangerous, especially mothers with calves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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