infant formula

Noun

infant formula (countable and uncountable, plural infant formulas or infant formulae or infant formulæ)

1. A manufactured food simulating human breast milk, designed to be fed to babies and infants under twelve months of age.
   • The great desideratum, in devising an infant's formula for food, is to make it, until he be nine months old, to resemble as much as possible a mother's own milk.1888, Pye Henry Chavasse, Wife and Mother: Or, Information for Every Woman, page 272
   • No extra ingredients to calculate, because it's a complete infant formula.1944, Rocky Mountain Medical Journal, volume 41, page 291

   Synonyms:

   baby formula, formula