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mare's teats

mare's teats is the plural of mare's teat.

Meaning of mare's teat

Noun

mare's teat (plural mare's teats)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mare, teat.
  2. A variety of wine grape from the Central Asian oases with distinctively shaped, brownish-purple fruit.
    • Incidentally, a famous wine grape brought in from the Silk Road, still being used to make wine in the Northwest, is called mare's teat (perhaps because of its shape); because in Chinese the same word is used for both "teat" and "milk," it is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English as "kumiss...1999, Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, Asian Foods: Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 391

Questions about mare's teats

What is mare's teats the plural of?
Mare's teats is the plural of mare's teat.

Words near mare's teats in the dictionary

  1. mare's tail
  2. mare's tails
  3. mare's teat
  4. mare's teat grape
  5. mare's teat grapes
  6. mare's teats
  7. mare's-nest
  8. mare's-tail
  9. mare's-tails
  10. Maready
  11. Mareadys

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