英 [kɑːvd]
v. （母牛等动物）产犊；（冰川、冰山）崩裂（calve 的过去式和过去分词）
calve /kɑːv/ [ calving calved calves ]
不及物动词 When a cow calves, it gives birth to a calf. 产犊
When his cows calve each year he keeps one or two calves for his family.
每年他的母牛产犊时，他都为家里留下一两头。
不及物动词 Some other female animals, including elephants and whales, are said to calve when they give birth to their young. 生(幼崽)
The whales migrate some 6,000 miles to breed and calve in the warm lagoons.
这种鲸鱼环游了6,000英里到暖水湖里生育繁殖。
Calves is the plural of . calf的复数形式
(used of cattle especially domestic cattle) born
(冰川、冰山)使(冰块)崩解：
(冰山、冰川)崩解
The glacier calved a large iceberg.
冰川崩解而产生一个大冰山。
Detailed view of an iceberg calved from glaciers on west Greenlandic coast.
格陵兰西海岸冰川上脱落冰山的清晰图像。
A large tabular iceberg calved from Helheim glacier on southeast Greenland.
一个巨大的桌状冰山从格陵兰岛东南部的黑尔海姆冰川上脱落。
Huge blocks of ice calved off and collapsed into tidal waves of icy slush.
The Petermann Glacier last birthed or "calved" a massive iceberg two years ago, in August 2010.
Satellite images have revealed that three massive icebergs have been calved from the Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea on the Antarctic coast.