cows' milk
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1.0
- noun
- /kaʊz mɪlk/
:
leche de vaca
- In many cultures, cows' milk is considered a staple food that provides essential nutrients.
- fresh cows' milk
- cows' milk formula
- cows' milk proteins
Examples
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Once a parent has chosen formula feeding, most pediatricians will recommend cow's milk-based formula over soy-based formula for most babies.
Academic text (2004) -
And not buttermilk, just ordinary cow's milk.
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Well, ice cream is made from cream, which comes from cow's milk, and cream has a lot of fat in it.
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The vet thinks you got it from the cow's milk.
Fiction book (1998) -
No cow's milk passed my lips until I was nine months old.
Fiction book (1997) -
Avoid cow's milk products if you have diarrhea.
Academic text (2007) -
More and more people are discovering that cow's milk isn't fit for human consumption.
Fiction book (1993) -
Trinkets, cloth, and cows' milk were traded for valuable furs and game.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many recipes call for cows' milk as a key ingredient for baking cakes and pastries.
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Some children are allergic to cows' milk, so their parents often choose alternatives like almond milk.
How Fatty
Surface Forms
Morphology
cows' + milk
The meaning 'milk obtained from cows' is directly and transparently derivable from the constituents: 'cows'' (possessive of cow, indicating source) + 'milk'. This possessive composition is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common way to mark origin, so a B1 learner who knows 'cow' and 'milk' will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Cows' milk comes from the simple image of milk taken from a cow's udder, the milk a cow gives to her calf. That's why the phrase means the ordinary dairy milk made from cows, not 'goat's milk' or 'plant-based milk'.