单词 | milk record |
释义 | > as lemmasmilk record milk record n. a record of the milk-yield of a milk-producing animal during a specified period, used in evaluating the worth of the animal; (also) the total recorded yield for a cow, usually quoted per lactation. ΚΠ 1891 Overland Monthly May 458/2 There is the beef strain of the Durham, cows of which I have been told are often unable to provide milk enough for their own calves; and there are milk strains that have high milk records. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 506 His sire's milk record was a thousand gallons of whole milk in forty weeks. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 47/2 This bull had an excellent milk-record pedigree. 1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 78/1 Be guided more by the goat's own milk records or, in the case of young stock, by those of its dam, its sister, its sire's dam and his immediate female relations. < as lemmas |
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