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
adult cattle; mature cattle
aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus)
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