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# heifer

«heifer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A young female cow that has not yet had a calf (or has…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a heifer, heifers)

### meaning for a pupil

A young female cow that has not yet had a calf (or has had only one). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In farming and science lessons, cattle words are: calf (baby), heifer (young female), cow (adult female that has had calves), bullock or steer (young castrated male), bull (adult male). In the Bible, heifers appear in old sacrifices. Phrases: a young heifer, heifers in the field.

### examples

- The heifer will have her first calf in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#x1)
- Five heifers were grazing in the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#x2)
- A heifer becomes a cow after she has calves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#x3)
- The farmer took his best heifer to the agricultural show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#x4)
- In the Bible, a red heifer is mentioned in the book of Numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#x5)
- When the old woman woke, there was no heifer in sight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heifer/#x6)

### note

Pronounced HEF-er (the «ei» sounds like «e» in «bed»). Spelling trap: h-e-i-f-e-r. Plural: heifers. Calling a woman a heifer is a rude insult; do not do it.

### In the corpora

- [And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.444/)
- [Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1218/)
- [For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; now shall the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.55/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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