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During the dig, Neil and Irene Armstrong, who have lived on the land for more than two decades, temporarily moved their heifers from the field, as the couple told the Cumbria News & Star’s Paul McTaggart in August.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
When Zeus took a liking to princess Io, Hera turned her into a heifer, then sent a gadfly – like a horse fly – to sting her constantly.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
My farmer grandfather warned me not to name my pet heifer.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2024
The oral surgeon identified the heifer’s color by the red hairs in Ms. Duysen’s mouth.
—Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
When Zeus took a liking to princess Io, Hera turned her into a heifer, then sent a gadfly – like a horse fly – to sting her constantly.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
My farmer grandfather warned me not to name my pet heifer.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2024
The oral surgeon identified the heifer’s color by the red hairs in Ms. Duysen’s mouth.
—Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Heifer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heifer. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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heifer
noun
heif·er
ˈhef-ər 
: a young cow
especially
: one that has not had a calf
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