have young

1. 1.

   give birth to (a calf)

   “the whales calve at this time of year”

   Synonymscalve

   Broadergive birth

Questions about have young

What does have young mean?

have young means "give birth to (a calf)".

What is another word for have young?

Close synonyms include calve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is have young a common word?

have young is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.