"calve" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to mean "to give birth to a calf", as in this example sentence: "The cow calved in the barn last night."
How else to safely see polar bears in the wild, watch glaciers calve from great frozen walls and icebergs the size of shopping malls float by?
Rising temperatures were initially blamed for the lake's disappearance; but researchers later concluded that it simply tipped into an even bigger lake.Around the Torres del Paine national park, near Punta Arenas, Mr Ban will be able to listen to the crashing and booming of glaciers as they "calve" into the sea: a natural process, but one that is accelerating.
The main source of ice islands used to be the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on Canada's Ellesmere Island near northwestern Greenland, but the ice shelf has been retreating as ice islands and bergs continue to calve from it.
Owing to their origin in narrow, fast-flowing glaciers, many Arctic bergs calve into random shapes that often develop further as they fracture and capsize.
As the original glacier diminished in size, it left 20 separate glaciers, of which 11 are tidewater glaciers that calve into the bay.
Cetacean breeding is seasonal, usually in the winter, and females normally calve once every two years.
And Legg-Perthes is actually a shortening of the original Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.
Southern right whales can be seen calving in the southern winter (July-September) off Puerto Madryn, though the best place to see them is Puerto Pirámides on the Valdés peninsula, from which smallish boats allow visitors to get close to the huge cetaceans.
I was preemptively disappointed, setting out on the tandem for the mauve shadow of the hills, to know that I would in all likelihood see no newborn calves, that our adventure would have a different character to the adventure undertaken by my brother and my father.
Related: McDonald 'sto axe deforestation from its global supply chain Cattle rearing in Brazil is a complex process in which cattle are calved, reared and fattened in different locations before arriving at slaughterhouses.
Bocuse is a great dinner companion – he told me of learning his trade as a young lad during the Occupation, how he was taught to kill pigs and veal calves, and later when he joined the Resistance, how he tried to kill Germans.
