milk cow
Herd's lactating member
A milk cow is a cow kept for producing milk rather than for beef.
The term distinguishes dairy cattle from those raised for slaughter.
Figuratively, a milk cow is any reliable source of income or profit that can be regularly tapped: The parking meters became a milk cow for the city budget.
Also called a milch cow.
- teatMammary outlet
- kineCattle, archaically
- udderMammalian mammary organ
- GuernseyBritish isle, cattle breed
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
barn · lactation · stanchion · Holstein · pail · butterfat · let-down · cream · calf · cud · hay · cows · colostrum · bovine · morning · ruminant · dairy cattle · stall
milk cowbeef cattle
Livestock raised for meat
breeding bull · draft animal · veal calf · oxen · steer
milk cowparasite
One exploiting a host
freeloader · leech · taker · consumer · dependent
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