Cattlebeast

Origin

en + cattle + beast

Full definition of cattlebeast

Noun

1. A domesticated bovine animal (cow, bull, steer etc).
• 1859, Thomas Guthrie
• 1980,
• 1993 , David Lampe
• 2012, Fiona Farrell
• 2015, W.A. Irwin

Usage notes

The plural cattlebeasts is used when referring to several individual beasts, while cattle is used when referring to a herd of them, collectively.