Thesaurus: beef

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1. n. An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
2. n. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
3. n. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
4. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
5. n. cattle that are reared for their meat
6. n. meat from an adult domestic bovine
7. n. informal terms for objecting
8. v. complain
9. 1. An word/animal">animal of the word/genus">genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food. Note: [In this, which is the original sense, the word has a plural, beeves (.] A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. 2. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food. Note: [In this sense, the word has no plural.] "Great meals of beef." Shak. 3. Applied colloquially to human flesh. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. Beef tea, essence of beef, or strong beef broth.
10. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. Beef tea, essence ofbeef, or strong beef broth.
11. v:6/n:94 n. cattle that are reared for their meat n. meat from an adult domestic bovine