foremilk

American  

[fawr-milk, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌmɪlk, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

1. colostrum.

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foremilk British  

/ ˈfɔːˌmɪlk /

noun

1. another word for colostrum

2. the first milk drawn from a cow's udder prior to milking

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Etymology

Origin of foremilk

First recorded in 1900–05; fore- + milk

Example Sentences

The cows were cloned using residual mammary cells found in the yellowish foremilk, or colostrum, produced when a cow gives birth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, Nelly," said the farmer,—who sat iwith a placid benevolent face, smoking his pipe on the opposite hob—to one of the maids who came in from milking,—"bring up a noggin of that milk, we want it here: let it be none of your washy foremilk, but the strippins, Nelly, that has the strinth in it.

From Project Gutenberg

Antonyms: native, indigene, citizen. foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic. foreknowledge, n. prescience. foremilk, n. colostrum. foreordain, v. preordain, predestinate, foredoom, predetermine. foreordination, n. predestination, predetermination. forerun, v. precede, herald. forerunner, n. precursor, harbinger, herald, avant-courier. foreshadow, v. presage, presignify, prognosticate, prefigure, augur. foresight, n. prescience, foreknowledge, prudence. foreskin, n. prepuce.

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