foremilk

[fawr-milk, fohr-]

noun

1. colostrum.

foremilk

/ ˈfɔːˌmɪlk /

noun

1. another word for colostrum

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of foremilk¹

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.

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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.

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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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