A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
ewes
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ewes.
Editorial note
The Ewes you refer to can also be divided into many smaller groups that can also be called tribes.
Quick take
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of ewes gathered in one view.
An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for ewes.
noun
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
noun
An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
noun
The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.
noun
Initialism of extreme wildfire event.
Example sentences
The Ewes you refer to can also be divided into many smaller groups that can also be called tribes.
The Ewes are unified under a High Chief precisely because they kept losing wars, pressuring them to join for defense.
Do the ewes prefer them because they get serenaded with sweet nothings?
We've eaten three year old ewes, which is pretty solidly mutton.
The farmer explained that this lambs mother had died and so he had no ewe to milk from (ewes won't let random lambs milk from them).
So he gave wild goat tissue from Kyrgyzstan to a lab to clone it, then had it breed with local ewes to produce a hybrid to sell.
When I was a kid, long long ago, we watched stallions put to mares, bulls to cows, and rams tupping ewes..
The rams were kept separate from the ewes most of the time so that births happened in a predictable fashion; but other than that, the sheep were given what sheep need.
I have ~45 acres of green grass, you have around 50 pregnant ewes, we should both do well and I love lamb rogan josh and seeing them all through spring/summer.
According to this study, by tying the rams to opposite corners and hence letting the ewes choose between them, the physically subordinate males got not just relatively, but absolutely, more action.
The idea behind it is that since one man is capable of fertilizing a very large number of women, just as a prize ram fertilizes thousands of ewes, the loss of male lives is comparatively unimportant.
Also, pasteurisation temperatures are standardised for cow's milk with 3.5% fat so if you have fatter milk, say from Jersey cows or from ewes (as I do) you need to increase the temperature (so I pasteurise ewe's milk at 65°C for 30').
Quote examples
This orphan lamb now smells like the other ewes baby and can now milk from his "adopted" mom.
>He then implanted the embryos in ewes on his ranch, resulting in a single, pure genetic male Marco Polo argali that he named “Montana Mountain King” or MMK.
"Ewes prefer subordinate rather than dominant rams as sexual partners" (alas, not "who do ewe choose?") If the rams control mating*, obviously the physically dominant rams butt the subordinate ones out, and mate preferentially.
I've seen youngsters who put out huge amounts of buggy code praised which youngsters putting out slow, carefully designed code were told to emulate the "rock star"--- but it was painfully obvious that the rock star was slowing the project down by causing damage everyone ewes was spending a lot of time repairing.
Proper noun examples
Ewes had babies that grew up with them in the flock.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use ewes in a sentence?
The Ewes you refer to can also be divided into many smaller groups that can also be called tribes.
What does ewes mean?
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
What part of speech is ewes?
ewes is commonly used as noun.