breast milk
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1.8
- noun
- /brɛst mɪlk/
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leche materna
- Breast milk provides all the essential nutrients that a newborn needs for healthy growth.
- breast milk PBDE
- breast milk PCB
- breast milk and breastfeeding
One is that there are bio active agents in human breast milk that kill the HIV virus.
- One is that there are bio active agents in human breast milk that kill the HIV virus.
- If you can get breast milk for them, that is the best drink for children.
- The next one says, I assume you had a lot of guilt regarding low breast milk supply with James.
- When she was born, there was, she was born into a world with no breast milk, very little formula, right?
- Birth immunity and digestion are greatly enhanced by breast milk.
- Giving breast milk to a cat, It's fucked up.
- In this case, it was the woman's own breast milk that they they had given birth.
- I think I mean, yeah, Bodily fluids, Breast milk, yeah.
- Kelly's like, isn't breast milk like God's food, like the perfect food?
Examples
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And it turns out when we think about evolution, breast milk is evolved by nature to be the perfect food for infants.
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If you can get breast milk for them, that is the best drink for children.
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But if your baby is sick, your breast milk could turn bright yellow.
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Now, is there a window of opportunity when breast milk is ideal?
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For example, we often like to think that breast milk must be good.
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OK, Nothing else but breast milk and possibly some medicines.
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In England and America, breast milk was regarded as a beneficial medicine.
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Defrost two bags of breast milk in the microwave for three minutes.
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Respect for the medicinal properties of breast milk reflected faith in its power as a life-giving force.
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Because human breast milk normally contains DHA, its consumption is not a concern for breast-fed babies.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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A woman makes this natural food for her newborn baby after birth
How Fatty
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1.8
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'breast' (mammary gland) + 'milk' (nutritive liquid): it denotes the milk produced by the breast for feeding an infant. This noun–noun source relationship is cross-linguistically common and follows a transparent compound pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand.
Etymology
The noun breast milk comes from the simple, literal image of milk made in a mother's breast to feed her baby. So, it means 'the milk a mother gives her baby'.