A steer is a castrated male that is raised for its meat
A steer is a castrated male bovine (or bull) that is raised for meat. An ox is a castrated male bovine (can also be female too) that is trained and used for pulling carts, wagons, plows, etc.
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A neutered sheep is typically called a wether.
There is no such thing as a female steer. A steer will forever and always be known as a castrated male bovine. Intact (uncastrated) male bovines are bulls, and intact (uncastrated) mature female bovines are cows. Heifers are female (intact) bovines that have not had a calf. Spayed heifers are heifers that have been "castrated" or repro tracts removed surgically.
The cow's or steer's meat is beef; the sheep's meat is lamb or mutton; the pig's meat is pork.
A cow. Male = bull Female = cow Castrated male = steer
The word "steer" as a verb means to guide the movement of something (especially a vehicle); the word "steer" as a noun means a male cow raised for its meat.
A steer is a bull that has been neutered so he cannot produce offspring. In horses, the equivalent is the gelding.
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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.
A beef cow or a beef steer (castrated male bovine).
These words distinguish between male and female animals. The words are neither masculine nor feminine, however, because there is no gender in the English noun. cow - bull/steer =male, cow = female (steer is a castrated male) deer - stag=male, doe=female sheep - ram/wether=male, ewe=female (wether is castrated male cat - tom=male, queen=female dog - dog=male, bitch=female horse - stallion=male, mare=female chicken - rooster or cock=male, pullet or hen=female duck - drake=male, duck=female fox-vixen goose-gander cob-pen (swans) jenny-jack ( donkeys)