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Calf - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Ankle, Aurochs, Beef, Berg, Bison, Bovine, Buffalo, Bull, Bullock, Carabao, Cattle, Chick, Colt, Cow |
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Calves are young animals. The term is mainly used for cattle, although whales and elephants also have calves.
A cattle calf is a child of a cow and a bull. The plural is calves. Calf meat is called veal. Fine calf skin used for pages in early codexes is called pergamon.
The calf is also a pair of muscles, the gastrocnemius muscle and soleus muscle, at the back of the lower human leg.
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