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MILCH COW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milch cow mean? 

MILCH COW (noun)
  The noun MILCH COW has 1 sense:

1. cattle that are reared for their milkplay

  Familiarity information: MILCH COW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MILCH COW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cattle that are reared for their milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker

Hypernyms ("milch cow" is a kind of...):

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "milch cow"):

Ayrshire (hardy breed of dairy cattle from Ayr, Scotland)

Brown Swiss (large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland)

Jersey (a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey)

milking shorthorn (breed evolved from shorthorn beef cattle)

Friesian; Holstein; Holstein-Friesian (a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland)

Guernsey (breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey)


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