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crop milk

crop milk noun: a semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also secreted from the esophagus of flamingos and some penguins.

Noun

crop milk (countable and uncountable, plural crop milks)

  1. A semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also secreted from the esophagus of flamingos and some penguins.

Forms of crop milk

pluralcrop milks

Questions about crop milk

What does crop milk mean?
Crop milk means a semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also secreted from the esophagus of flamingos and some penguins.
What part of speech is crop milk?
Crop milk is a noun.
What is the plural of crop milk?
The plural of crop milk is crop milks.

Words near crop milk in the dictionary

  1. crop circles
  2. crop duster
  3. crop dusters
  4. crop mark
  5. crop marks
  6. crop milk
  7. crop out
  8. Crop Over
  9. crop rotation
  10. crop rotations
  11. crop top

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