Usually means: Young animals born from cows.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word calves:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. calves: Merriam-Webster
  2. calves, calves: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calves, calves: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. calves: Collins English Dictionary
  5. calves: Vocabulary.com
  6. Calves, calves: Wordnik
  7. calves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. calves: Wiktionary
  9. calves: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. calves: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. calves: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. calves: Dictionary.com
  13. calves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Calves: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Calves: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. Calves: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Calves: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. calves: FreeDictionary.org
  19. calves: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. calves: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calves: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. calves: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. calves: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Calves: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See calve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.
verb:  (intransitive) To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.
verb:  (transitive) To give birth to (a calf).
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg).
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) To break off.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg).
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