牛

muskox (Ovibos moschatus); musk ox

polled cattle

branded beef

bull (breeding); sire

calf; cattle being reared

culled cow; spent cow; spent bull

Food, cooking

Mishima beef

Proverb

one should not rush to make a profit; business is (best run when sales flow like) a cow's drool (i.e. long and thin)

trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; the cure is worse than the disease

Euhadra peliomphala (species of land snail)

low-fat milk

non-fat milk; skim milk

garden snail (Euhadra quaesita)

Indian buffalo

fruit-flavored milk

African bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus)

Astronomy

Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

nonhomogenized milk; unhomogenized milk

Idiomatic expression

to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow

Proverb

even a clever woman is bound to mess up; a woman's intelligence only goes so far; female sagacity overreaches itself; a clever woman fails to sell a cow

Proverb

learn to crawl before you learn to walk; until you ride a horse, ride a cow

Proverb

do not go lie down after eating (because it is considered rude); if you lie down soon after eating, you will become a cow

great burdock sold covered with soil

Historical term

(right to acquire) dead horses and cattle (Edo period)