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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cow-calf twinborn with a bull-calf. It is generally barren, and when this is the case on dissection is found to have parts of the organs of each sex, but neither perfect.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male, which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones.
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“The almost universal belief is, that the free-martin will not breed; and generally this holds good.”
“a male and the other a female, the female is called a free-martin.”
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