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MILCH COW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cattle that are reared for their milk
Synonyms:
dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker
Classified under:
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)