nursing bottle
- noun
- /ˈnɜrsɪŋ ˈbɑtəl/
:
biberón
- She filled the nursing bottle with warm milk for her baby.
Examples
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A newborn baby girl was left in the Kmart parking lot with seven jars of strained prunes, a plastic nursing bottle, and a beautiful silver St. Christopher medal.
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The mother packed a nursing bottle in the diaper bag for their outing.
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After the feeding, he washed the nursing bottle with soap and water.
Synonyms
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1.0
A container with a soft nipple used to feed milk or formula to babies
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1.0
A bottle used to hold milk for feeding babies
A small bottle with a soft nipple for giving milk or formula to babies
How Infant-Focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'nursing' (feeding an infant) modifies 'bottle' (a feeding container), so a 'nursing bottle' is readily understood as a bottle used to feed babies. This is a common, cross-linguistic compound pattern (cf. 'baby bottle', Spanish 'biberón') and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The name nursing bottle comes from the simple idea of a bottle used for nursing a baby. It refers to a bottle with a teat for feeding infants when the mother cannot 'breastfeed'.