Steers (castrated male bovines), bulls and heifers (female bovines that have not calved) that are between the ages of 12 and 24 months of age tend to give better quality beef than older cows or bulls. Naturally, of course, this all depends on their diets they were on in the past few months prior to slaughter.
bovine
The scientific name for beef cattle is Bos taurus.
Veal
Beef that does not come from a bovine, or rather beef that's not beef at all... it's more of a vegan dish than anything.
A beef cow or a beef steer (castrated male bovine).
BEEF (bovine)
No other animal except the domestic bovine produces beef.
A cow is a mature female of a certain species, including dolphins and cattle. Cattle is the name of the bovine animal that gives us milk and beef, and moos.
A steer if referring to a castrated bovine raised for beef, or an ox if referring to a castrated, usually horned bovine used for draft.
Generally speaking, the meat from a bovine that is older than a year of age is referred to as beef.Meat from a bovine that is less than a year of age is called baby beef.Meat from a calf that is less than 3 months of age is called veal.
If there is a label on the carcass that entails that it is an Angus beef product, and if there is a CAB (Certified Angus Beef) label on the package, then that tells you that the cut of beef is Angus. Without such labeling, you really wouldn't know what breed of bovine the cut of beef came from.
Cow meat. The word "bovine" means "of or pertaining to the subfamily Bovinae, which includes cattle, buffalo and kudus" (taken from the RandomHouse-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary). So technically, bovine meat would include buffalo and kudus.