Possessives

• milk: For them, cow's milk is Nature's most perfect food.

• udder: A lower-grade student would do better to visit a farm and tug a few times on a cow's udder.

• teat: A correctly operating milking machine should minimize adverse effects on the condition of cows ' teats.

Converse of object

• calve: A comparison of four contrasting milk production systems with winter calving high genetic merit cows.

• milk: Due to the nature of our building work last year we were unable to house our milking cows in this house.

Adjective modifier

• sacred: Why is the car treated like a sacred cow?

• homebred: This 15 month old's sire was bred from Paris Show winning lines and out of a homebred cow by Gower Javelin.

• Friesian: At 12.45pm each day you can try hand milking Millie, our lovable friesian cow.

• mad: A new theory for the origin of " mad cow " disease has linked its spread with the feeding of human remains to animals.

Modifies a noun

• dung: As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.

• parsley: Indeed, 'Mother Die ' was a well known country name for cow parsley.

• pat: The biggest problem was keeping our wings out of the abundant cow pats!

• manure: Viable seeds have also been found in cow manure.

• milk: Here is a bowl of fresh cow milk for you.

Noun used with modifier

• suckler: SCP is paid on suckler cows forming part of a regular breeding herd used for rearing calves for meat production.

• dairy: For the dairy cow the price paid is very dear.

• milch: Even the pharmaceutical industry is not the milch cow that publishers might think us to be.

• cull: Also with the expected lifting of the Over Thirty Month Scheme, the fleshier cross-bred cull cows should be worth more.

• pantomime: Protesters, including a pantomime cow, handed out warning leaflets to shoppers.

• downer: F ) Procedures for the control and management of downer cows to minimize suffering and ensure proper welfare.