Milk Definitions

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of many diseases in the baby. It also contains many other nutrients."

"An opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young."

"A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young."

"Liquid as secreted by cows, goats, or certain other animals and used by humans for food or as a source of butter, cheeses, yogurt, etc."

" Raw milk from healthy animal, that has been produced and handled under hygienic conditions that contains only small numbers of harmless bacteria and that possesses a good keeping quality without being treated by heat.”

"Milk is physiological secretion from the mammary gland of mammals".

"Milk is the fresh and clean lacteal secretion practically free from colostrum and obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, properly fed and maintained and excluding that obtained within fifteen days before and ten days after calving and containing not less than 8.25 per cent solid-not-fat and not less than 3.5 per cent milk fat". (Federal definition of USA) 

"Milk is the secretion derived from the complete milking of healthy milch animals. It should be free from colosrum". (Legal definition, india)

"A complex mixture consisting of an emulsion of fat and a colloidal dispersion of proteins, together, with the milk sugar in true solution. It is obtained in a natural process from the lactating females through their udders and teats, only when they give birth to their youngones". 

( Kon, 1972) 

"Milk is the entire product of the complete and uninterrupted milking of milch cows which are properly cared for and are in good health".

"the integral product of entire and uninterrupted milking of milch cows in good health and well nourished and not over worked. It is ought to be collected in proper manner and contains no colostrum". (Geneva Congress)

"A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts". (English dictionary from Macmillan Publishers Limited)  

"A white liquid that comes from cows, goats, and sheep, which people drink and use in cooking. Cheese and other foods made from milk are called dairy products." 

"white liquid that women and female animals produce in their bodies to feed their babies or young animals." 

"A white liquid that some plants such as the coconut produce."

"A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex."

"An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water."