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spring lamb

spring lamb noun: a milkfed lamb, usually three to five months old, born in late winter or early spring and sold for meat usually before 1 July (in the northern hemisphere).

Noun

spring lamb (countable and uncountable, plural spring lambs)

  1. (countable) A milkfed lamb, usually three to five months old, born in late winter or early spring and sold for meat usually before 1 July (in the northern hemisphere).
  2. (uncountable) The meat of such a lamb.

Forms of spring lamb

pluralspring lambs

Questions about spring lamb

What does spring lamb mean?
Spring lamb means a milkfed lamb, usually three to five months old, born in late winter or early spring and sold for meat usually before 1 July (in the northern hemisphere).
What part of speech is spring lamb?
Spring lamb is a noun.
What is the plural of spring lamb?
The plural of spring lamb is spring lambs.

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