| 单词 | milk mirror |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk mirror milk mirror n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) an area of skin with an upward pattern of hair growth, covering the udder and contiguous parts of a cow (or the equivalent part of a bull); = escutcheon n. 3g; cf. mirror n. 8. ΚΠ 1853 New Eng. Farmer May 210/1 In the milk mirror which begins at the udder, the downlike delicate, short and lighter-colored hair grows upwards. 1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 65 An animal in which these signs are found would rarely fail of having a good ‘milk-mirror’ or escutcheon. 1881 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming 6/2 The ‘milk-mirror’ or ‘escutcheon’ theory of M. Guenon. 1938 D. L. Espe Secretion of Milk ii. 8 (note) The early views regarding the value of the escutcheon or milk mirror in determining the producing ability of a cow have been largely cast aside. 1963 E. E. Lampard Rise Dairy Industry Wisconsin vi. 172 Seward adhered to Guenon's principle of ‘the milk mirror’, but he emphasized that care and comfort were almost as important as breed or feed. 2004 B. Orland in S. R. Schrepfer & P. Scranton Industrializing Organisms ii. 178 Agricultural literature then, very often reflected popular thought or individual experience; one example is Francois Guenon's ‘milk mirror’ (a pattern of hair growth around the udder). < as lemmas |
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