crop milk
English
Noun
crop milk (countable and uncountable, plural crop milks)
- A semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also secreted from the esophagus of flamingos and some penguins.
Hyponyms
- dove milk
- dove's milk
- flamingo milk
- penguin milk
- pigeon milk
- pigeon's milk
Translations
“milk” from a bird’s crop
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