Musing

[dogriver]

Please, another of you impeccable English speakers help me out here. There should be a one-word answer to this, but I can not think of one, and I suspect there is none. Please fill in the blank.

Human is to humans as {blank} is to cattle.

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Re: humans vs. cattle

[masterofmusings.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to figure out what a single one of those things would be called. A female's a cow and a male's a bull, but the same can be said for whales. But a single one of them, be it cow or bull, is a whale. What's a single ... whatever?