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Encyclopedia > Cow (disambiguation)
Look up cow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Cow may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • The female of several species of mammal, including bovines, whales, seals and elephants.
    • Cattle of all genders, in vernacular usage
  • Vacas, Cows in English, is a 1991 Spanish film
  • Al-Baqara, "the Cow", the second chapter of the Qur'an
  • Insulting term for an obese or unpleasant woman
  • An intelligent or powerful programmer in Chinese informatics competitions e.g. National Olympiad in Informatics, China
  • COW programming language, an esoteric programming language.
  • Cow, a female character on the animated series Cow and Chicken.
  • "Cows", a song by Grandaddy from their 1992 album Prepare to Bawl
  • The Cows, a Minneapolis-based noise rock band.

COW may also refer to: The hand mirror and comb of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (often called cows in vernacular and contemporary usage, or kye as the Scots plural of cou) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Poster for Vacas Vacas (Cows) is a 1991 Spanish film, the first full-length feature by director Julio Medem. ... Sūrata’l-Baqarah (Arabic: ‎ the Cow) is the second, and the longest, chapter of the Quran, with 286 verses. ... Obesity is an excess storage of fat and can affect any mammal, such as the mouse on the left. ... Diverse women. ... The National Olympiad in Informations (NOI) is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students. ... Cow and Chicken is an American animated television series, created by David Feiss, first broadcast on the Cartoon Network from 1997 to 2001. ... Album by the band Grandaddy released on tape in 1992. ... The bands star painted on the side of the First Avenue in Minneapolis. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... Lightning Bolt Live at the Southgate House 2005. ...


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COWS : Encyclopedia Entry (2420 words)
Cattle (called cows in vernacular and contemporary usage, kine or kyne in pre-modern English, or kye as the Scots plural of cou) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae.
Strictly speaking, the singular noun for the domestic bovine is ox: a bull is a male ox and a cow is a female ox.
Today "cow" is frequently used by the general population as a gender-neutral term, although it is meant to be used solely to mean female (females of other animals, such as whales or elephants, are also called cows).
Cattle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (2922 words)
Cattle (called cows in vernacular usage, kine archaic, or kye as the Scots plural of cou) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae.
Cows are venerated within the Hindu religion of India: According to Vedic scripture they are to be treated with the same respect 'as one's mother' because of the milk they provide.
The cow is a photograph that the animators manipulate in such a way as to suggest that the cow is performing all kinds of unusual feats when obviously, it is just a photograph being moved around.
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