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wether noun[ C ] uk /ˈweð.ər/ us /ˈweð.ɚ/ a male sheep that has been castrated(= had its sex organs removed): 阉羊,去势公羊 He drove around the paddocks checking wethers, ewes and lambs.他开着车在围场里各处检查公羊、母羊和小羊的情况。 Crossbred wether lambs sold at £27. He got the job, looking at agricultural policy, because he was able to tell his interviewer that a teg, a hogget and a wether were all different types of sheep. The sheep here are divided into flocks of about three hundred breeding ewes, or four hundred wethers, in each. Emyr, as he saw me staggering with a big wether, asked me anxiously if I could manage it. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Sheep & goats bezoar billy goat ewe goat ibex kid lamb merino mountain goat nanny goat ovine polled ram shearling sheep |