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cream line

cream line noun: the layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized.

Noun

cream line (plural cream lines)

  1. The layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized.
    • There is produced, however, at this temperature a cooked taste and the cream line is reduced to a greater extent than when the milk is heated and blown at 145° F.1914, Samuel Henry Ayers, William Trimble Johnson, Removal of garlic flavor from milk and cream
    • As pasteurization reduced cream line by about 15% some dairymen slightly under-pasteurized their milk in order to outsell their competitors.2012, S Herschdoerfer, Quality Control in the Food Industry, →ISBN, page 81

Forms of cream line

pluralcream lines
alternative formcreamline

Origin of cream line

From cream + line.

Questions about cream line

What does cream line mean?
Cream line means the layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized.
What part of speech is cream line?
Cream line is a noun.
What is the plural of cream line?
The plural of cream line is cream lines.

Words near cream line in the dictionary

  1. cream horn
  2. cream horns
  3. cream in one's coffee
  4. cream in one's jeans
  5. cream in one's pants
  6. cream line
  7. cream lines
  8. cream liqueur
  9. cream liqueurs
  10. cream nut
  11. cream nuts

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