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Collocations for cow - noun

ADJECTIVE

beef
dairy, milch (BrE,often figurative), milk (esp. AmE)
The region is treated as a milch cow by central government.
sacred (often figurative)
the sacred cow of free-market economics

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… OF COWS

herd

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VERB + cow

breed
milk
kill, slaughter

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cow + VERB

low, moo
chew the cud, graze
calve
The cow had difficulties calving.

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cow + NOUN

byre (BrE), shed (usually cowshed)
pasture
chip (AmE), dung, manure, muck, pat (usually cowpat), patty (AmE), pie (AmE)
bell (usually cowbell)

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PHRASES

a breed of cow

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