Questions tagged [animals]

A single female is a cow A single male is a bull A castrated male is a steer An unbred female is a heifer A juvenile is a calf All of those terms can be pluralized according to normal conventions. There is also the collective cattle But what I…

I am looking for a name of a rodent. It is two words of three letters each. The rodent is somehow related to the rat and guinea pig and "it is not white coated despite its name". The question comes from the game IAssociate, so the rodent is probably…

In previous questions we learnt how to use words like 'asinine', 'bovine', 'canine' and 'feline', so, after some deep thoughts, a question arose in my mind: why does English, in some cases, not use the suffix -ine when describing an animal trait…