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ANIMAL UNIT

Specialty Definition: ANIMAL UNIT

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

A standard measure, based on feed requirements, used to combine various classes of livestock according to size, weight, age, and use. For federal lands, an animal unit represents one mature cow, bull, steer, heifer, horse, mule, or five sheep, or five goats, all over six months of age. (references)

Food & Agriculture

A measure which expresses all types of livestock in one composite index. Source: European Union. (references)
 A measure of livestock concentration on a range; considered to be one mature cow of approximately 453. 6 kg(1, 000 lb), either dry or with a calf of six months of age or less, consuming about 11. 8 kg(26 lb)of forage on an oven-dry basis. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ANIMAL UNIT

Specialty definitions using "ANIMAL UNIT": Animal unit monthGrazing feeHead monthincidence of browsing, incidence of grazingrate of stockingstocking rate. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ANIMAL UNIT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

animal unit month

3

animal unit

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ANIMAL UNIT

Language Translations for "ANIMAL UNIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kvaegenhed (cattle unit, Livestock Unit). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vee-equivalent, vee-eenheid (cattle unit, Livestock Unit), grootveeëenheid. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

karjayksikkö, eläinyksikkö. (various references)

   

French

  

unité de bétail, unité bétail équivalente, unité animale équivalente, unité animale. (various references)

   

German

  

Vieheinheit (cattle unit, Livestock Unit), Großvieheinheit. (various references)

   

Italian

  

unità di bestiame, capo grosso. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

animalay itunay

   

Portuguese

  

unidade de rebanho, ordenamento do gado em pastoreio. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

unidad ganadera, unidad animal. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

djurenhet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ANIMAL UNIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-m-n-n-t-u"

-2 letters: amanitin, maintain, minutial.

-3 letters: alumina, antiman, intimal, matinal, minutia, nautili.

-4 letters: alanin, alumin, alumna, alumni, anilin, animal, annual, annuli, intima, inulin, lamina, limina, lumina, manila, manitu, mantua, manual, muntin, numina, tinman, ultima, unnail.

-5 letters: aalii, alant, amain, amnia, anima, animi, annal, annul, atman, ilium, lamia, lanai, lauan, liana, liman, limit, linin, linum, litai, manat.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-m-n-n-t-u"
 

+2 letters: calumniating, calumniation, manipulating, manipulation.

 

+3 letters: calumniations, manipulations, multinational.

 

+4 letters: multinationals.

 

+5 letters: communicational, masculinization, outmanipulating, transilluminate, unimaginatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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