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Re: Flesh Eating Names

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, October 13, 2008, 18:42
On an only-vaguely-related note, what's the sex-neutral term in
English for a "bull"/"cow"/bovine thingy?   I read somewhere once that
"ox" used to fill that role before being co-opted to refer to a
different subcategory of the same species.  What's the singular of
"cattle"?

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