cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
gyudon; rice covered with sliced beef, usu. with vegetables
to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb
ox carriage (for Heian era nobles); oxcart
coffee-flavored milk; coffee milk
raging bull; ferocious bull
water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis); domestic Asian water buffalo; wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee); Asian water buffalo
bullfighting; bullfight; fighting bull
Wagyu beef; Japanese beef
dairy cow; dairy cattle; milk cow; milch cow
beef tongue (a specialty of Sendai); ox tongue
snail's pace; slow progress
Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
butcher's knife; chef's knife
cattle manure; cow dung; cowpat; bullshit
beef bone (used to make stock); cattle bone; bovine bone
thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan; sukiyaki
butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef; beef-hotpot restaurant
bovine spongiform encephalopathy; BSE; mad cow disease
snail's pace tactics; walking extremely slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings; (lit.) ox walk tactic
cowshed; cow farmer; restaurant specializing in beef dishes; store (butcher, etc.) that sells beef
Yoshinoya gyudon (beef on rice)
cattle slaughter (for food)
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse
Taurus (2nd zodiacal sign); the Bull
aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus)
adult cattle; mature cattle
Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
trifling (fight); (a conflict) between small countries
small fraction (of); drop in the bucket; drop in the ocean
cattle plague; rinderpest
(having, there being) a great number of books
better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill
rice covered with beef and vegetables
better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; (lit.) better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow
wicked and perverse; weird and incoherent
shorthorn; short-horned cattle
homogenized milk; homogenised milk
beef shin; beef shank; gravy beef
nonhomogenized milk; unhomogenized milk
processed meat injected with a beef tallow mixture
longhorn; long-horned cattle
processed meat injected with a beef tallow mixture
mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi)
culled cow; spent cow; spent bull
calf; cattle being reared
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
to be overanxious; to worry needlessly
to take the lead in; to control; to be the leader
using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem
culled cow; spent cow; spent bull
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia; CBPP
American bison (Bison bison); buffalo
Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)
African buffalo (Syncerus caffer); Cape buffalo
sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow