dairy cattle

plural noun

: cattle kept for milk production

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This year, four other farm workers have tested positive — one in Texas, two in Michigan and another in Colorado — after working with infected dairy cattle. Brenda Goodman, CNN, 16 July 2024 Don Clifton, executive director of the Delaware Farm Bureau, which supported the bill, was quick to note that the smattering of human cases of H5N1 tied to the dairy cattle outbreak have been in workers in contact with sick animals, not consumers of raw milk. Nicholas Florko, STAT, 3 July 2024 Since March, when the H5N1 virus was first detected in U.S. dairy cattle, there have been more than a dozen cases of human infection that were traced back to contact with infected animals. Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024 These two cases bring the total number of humans infected with bird flu by diseased dairy cattle to six. Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dairy cattle 

Word History

First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dairy cattle was in 1895

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“Dairy cattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dairy%20cattle. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

dairy cattle

noun
: cattle raised especially to produce milk

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