udder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of udder
before 1000; Middle English uddre, Old English ūder; cognate with German Euter, Latin ūber, Greek oûthar, Sanskrit ū́dhar
Explanation
A cow's udder is the part of its body that produces milk. When you milk a cow, you empty its udder by squeezing the milk into a bucket. Moo! To milk any four-legged ruminant, you need to carefully squeeze and pull each teat after cleaning the udder. Large dairy farmers use machines to do this, while some smaller ones do it by hand. Female cattle, goats, deer, and sheep all produce milk and have udders, organs in their bodies that contain mammary glands.
Example Sentences
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During their trips they met a relative claiming to be the world's oldest man, picked up work in tiny sea ports and drank camel's milk straight from the udder.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024
He said he monitors each cow at his farms with a device that sits in a cow’s udder and sends real-time information about the animal’s body temperature, milk acidity, etc.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2024
Some experimental vaccines against bacterial udder infections have performed poorly, Falkenberg says, suggesting that is a difficult hurdle.
From Science Magazine • May 20, 2024
Rather than obtaining the pus from a cow udder, he first took it from the hand of a young woman with cowpox lesions.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2021
“Na, na, rabbit no sveem dis river. Ees peeg, ees deep, go queek. But ees pridge, den udder side plenty place for hide. Ees close to varren, like you say.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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