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None exists. This is an outrage!
they should join up with the fish and sheep and protest
Cattle have it worse than sheep and fish. There is such a thing as “a fish” or “a sheep”. There’s no such thing as “a cattle”.
Ummm hello… Cow and Bull.
Bovine
Also Motivated Grammar:
[Update 07/13: Anndra in the comments noted that Scots use the word beast as the genderless singular of cattle. This reminded me that there is a word that is specific to a bovine animal and is genderless and ageless: neat, as in neatfoot oil. Unfortunately, beast is of limited geographical reach, and neat is archaic, although I might try to adopt one or both into my lexicon all the same.]”
zahavasdad,
Bovine
It works! I think bovine historically is an adjective (of or relating to animals in the bovinae subfamily), but just like the adjectives feline, canine, male, female, etc., bovine has evolved in usage to be a noun as well.
RebYidd23, we have changed the English language just for you.
All animals are beasts!
Bovine doesn’t only refer to cattle. Buffalo, wild oxen, and other animals are also Bovines.
The poverty of modern English is not reflected in other languages
Maybe if we swapped English with hieroglyphics it would resolve the issues of alternative facts
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