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Heifer vs Heiferette - What's the difference?

heifer | heiferette |

As nouns the difference between heifer and heiferette

is that heifer is a young cow, particularly one over one year old but which has not calved while heiferette is a female bovine, usually more than six months of age and less than two years of age, that has had no more than one calf.

heifer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
  • * 1611 , KJV, Numbers 19:1-2
  • (label) A wife.
  • *1616 , Ben Jonson, Epicœne'', Ch. ii., in ''Works , Vol. I, p. 549:
  • A girl.
  • * 1853 , T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws , Vol. II., p. 282:
  • A cow: a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman.
  • * 2001 , Glenda Howard, Cita's World

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, heiferbud, heifer-bud , heifer calf , heifer dust , heiferhood , heifer paddock, heifer-paddock , heifer yearling , plow with one's heifer, plough with one's heifer}}

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    English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    heiferette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female bovine, usually more than six months of age and less than two years of age, that has had no more than one calf.