Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms
14 November 2011
Two heifers at the Pennsylvania Farm Show
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Today we have a
vocabulary quiz
. We start with two questions about terms for plants.
OK, first question: What is the name for a plant that lives only one year or one growing season? This kind of plant is called an annual. Think of an "annual report," a report published just once a year.
You can probably guess the next question. What do we call a plant that produces new growth year after year? Plants that keep growing back are called
perennials
. So a perennial is the opposite of an annual. Perennials come back year after year.
Now some questions about terms for
livestock
.
What is another name for a male cow? A bull, right? Well, not always. A male cow is usually called a bull only if it still has its reproductive organs. If not, we call it a -- what? The answer: a steer.
Next question: What is another name for a young cow? A very young cow is called a calf. But a young female cow, especially one that has not had a calf yet, has a special name. Do you know what it is? The answer: a heifer. Maybe you knew that. But here is question just for our radio listeners -- can you spell it? Heifer is spelled H-E-I-F-E-R.
Cows, like all
mammals
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