MOTHER'S MILK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mother's milk mean? 

• MOTHER'S MILK (noun)
  The noun MOTHER'S MILK has 1 sense:

1. milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth

  Familiarity information: MOTHER'S MILK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER'S MILK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("mother's milk" is a kind of...):

milk (produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young)

 Context examples 

An indication as to whether the subject was breast fed (received mother's milk) as an infant.

(Breast Fed Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

It also infects rats and newborn hamsters and is apparently transmitted vertically to embryos in utero and through mother's milk.

(Moloney Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)