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a four-stomached lawnmower that befriends you, mourns its dead, and judges your vibe
means A large domesticated bovine animal, especially an adult female kept for milk, raised across the world for dairy and beef.
from From Old English 'cū,' tracing back through Proto-Germanic '*kūz' to the Proto-Indo-European root '*gʷṓus,' meaning ox or cow — one of the oldest and most widely traveled words in the family, with cousins everywhere: Latin 'bos' (source of 'bovine'), Greek 'bous,' and Sanskrit 'go.' The plural was once 'kine,' a now-archaic survivor, before the modern '-s' won out. The same ancient root quietly underpins 'beef,' which arrived later via French.
- best friends
- cows form lifelong bonds and stress when separated
- stomach math
- four chambers, zero patience for grass shortcuts
- chew time
- up to eight hours daily chewing cud
- magnetic sense
- often align their bodies along magnetic north-south
- face memory
- can recognize over a hundred individual faces
bessie — holstein dairy cow who produced 30,000+ pounds of milk, 1970s wisconsin
sacred cows of india — approximately 300 million cattle protected by hindu religious law across india
cow 195 — friesian cow in netherlands that gave birth to calves for 19 consecutive years, world record