单词 | milk tube |
释义 | > as lemmasmilk tube milk tube n. †(a) a duct of a mammary gland (cf. milk duct n. (b)) (obsolete); (b) a catheter used to obtain milk from the teat of a cow; (c) a laticiferous vessel of a plant; a laticiferous hypha of a fungus. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking machinery or apparatus milk tube1839 siphon1844 tapper1884 pulsator1907 releaser1913 inflation-rubber1950 milk line1950 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 246/2 The nipple or mammilla consists of the common integuments, fascia, milk-tubes, [etc.]. 1877 Rep. Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 8 106 The milk must be drawn by means of a catheter, or milk tube. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 198 The sharp difference of structure between the sieve- and milk-tubes is always particularly clear. 1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 185 The milk tube or trochar, was inserted different depths. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 409/1 In one genus (Lactarius) ‘milk-tubes’, recalling the lactiferous tubes of many vascular plants, are found. 1932 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 19 11 He..claimed that circulation, coagulation, and blood corpuscles were all duplicated in the phenomena which he observed in the milk tubes. 1981 F. R. Lowe Milking Machines x. 108 Without these shut-offs on the short milk tubes it would be almost impossible to attach the unit to the udder due to the loss of vacuum. < as lemmas |
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