Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a breed of large cattle developed in Switzerland, having a reddish body and a white face and raised in the United States primarily for meat.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Simmental, a valley of the Simme River in southwest-central Switzerland.]

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Examples

  • Ernie came out a fawn colour and is the same breed as his mother a Simmental while Emily is darker shade of black and brown is apparently an Aberdeen Angus.

    Cow Gives Birth To Twins Of Different Breeds | Impact Lab 2009

  • Ernie came out a fawn colour and is the same breed as his mother a Simmental while Emily is darker shade of black and brown is apparently an Aberdeen Angus.

    Cow Gives Birth To Twins Of Different Breeds | Impact Lab 2009

  • The odd occurrence happened when farmer Vic Phillips, 27, mated his Aberdeen Angus bull Eric with a Simmental heifer, called Jemima.

    Cow Gives Birth To Twins Of Different Breeds | Impact Lab 2009

  • The odd occurrence happened when farmer Vic Phillips, 27, mated his Aberdeen Angus bull Eric with a Simmental heifer, called Jemima.

    Cow Gives Birth To Twins Of Different Breeds | Impact Lab 2009

  • Simmental prize bull, the German Embassy said on Monday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Each rabbit is impregnated with two ova, and they go into the mother cow, so that time after time what you get is not one Simmental but twins.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • And the best Simmental will improve it eighteen percent.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • We take female rabbits ready to conceive and place in their uterus the inseminated Simmental ova, which grow there just as well as they would in the uterus of a cow.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • Doesn't have to be a Simmental, because the characteristics of the future animal are in the ovum, not in the substitute mother.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • But the big difference will be that the Simmental has never been bred to look good in hotel lobbies.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

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