milk
has definitions from the fields of biology,food,geography,zoology,agriculture
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[ noun ] (food) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)If it 's true that contented cows give more milk , why should n't happy ball players produce more base_hits ? (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)Depending_on the organism , there may be multiplication in some food or beverage products , i.e. , in milk for_example . One must include the preparation of soft_drinks and the processing of milk and milk products . One must include the preparation of soft_drinks and the processing of milk and milk products . (Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen , which is then secreted in the milk . |
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[ verb ] (zoology,agriculture) take milk from female mammals
Examples "Cows need to be milked every morning" Used in print (Guideposts BR-E01. Mr. America, 4:6 (November, 1961)...)Starr_Jones gets_up every morning at five o ' clock , milks his family cow , attends to farm chores , and_then takes a two-hour train trip to New_York . |
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[ verb ] exploit as much as possible
Examples "I am milking this for all it's worth" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)He milks the latest scientific advances , translating them into his own special Buck_Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay_fever to sexual impotence and cancer . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology,food) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)Juanita and Mrs._Tussle kept Kate in bed a week until her milk dried . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
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[ noun ] (food) any of several nutritive milklike liquids
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