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infant formulae

infant formulae is the plural of infant formula.

Meaning of 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

Questions about infant formulae

What is infant formulae the plural of?
Infant formulae is the plural of infant formula.

Words near infant formulae in the dictionary

  1. infangs
  2. infangthef
  3. infangthief
  4. infant
  5. infant formula
  6. infant formulae
  7. infant formulas
  8. infant formulæ
  9. infant industries
  10. infant industry
  11. infant massage

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