英语词汇“in the milk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. in the milk (also in milk): (of grain) having a milky consistency due to incomplete development. out of the milk: (of grain) beginning to mature.

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1772 J. Habersham Let. 24 Sept. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1904) VII. 213 The Rice came up rather unequal, so that a good deal of those Fields were in Milk.

1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 21 The corn then being in the milk.

a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 341 When the kernels of wheat..are in the milk.

1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. 153 At the time when the contents of the berry [of wheat] are in the condition technically known as ‘milk’.

1899 Evesham Jrnl. 29 Apr. 6/5 The sparrows began [to eat the wheat] as soon as the corn was just out of the milk.

1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. iv. xlii. 191 This bread was of two kinds; one made up of green corn while still ‘in the milk’, and the other of dry and ripened corn.

1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 596 How do you know when corn is ready to eat?.. It's in the milk.

†b. in the milk: (of an oyster) containing spawn which has not yet been discharged. Cf. milky adj. 2d. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > spawn > before discharge

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1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1480/2 The breeding-time of oysters is in April or May, from which time to July or August the oysters are said to be sick or in the milk.

单词	in the milk
释义	> as lemmas in the milk b. in the milk (also in milk): (of grain) having a milky consistency due to incomplete development. out of the milk: (of grain) beginning to mature. ΚΠ 1772 J. Habersham Let. 24 Sept. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1904) VII. 213 The Rice came up rather unequal, so that a good deal of those Fields were in Milk. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 21 The corn then being in the milk. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 341 When the kernels of wheat..are in the milk. 1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. 153 At the time when the contents of the berry [of wheat] are in the condition technically known as ‘milk’. 1899 Evesham Jrnl. 29 Apr. 6/5 The sparrows began [to eat the wheat] as soon as the corn was just out of the milk. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. iv. xlii. 191 This bread was of two kinds; one made up of green corn while still ‘in the milk’, and the other of dry and ripened corn. 1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 596 How do you know when corn is ready to eat?.. It's in the milk. extracted from milkn.¹adj. in the milk †b. in the milk: (of an oyster) containing spawn which has not yet been discharged. Cf. milky adj. 2d. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > spawn > before discharge in the milk1858 1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1480/2 The breeding-time of oysters is in April or May, from which time to July or August the oysters are said to be sick or in the milk. extracted from milkn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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