Udder meaning
A baglike organ containing the mammary glands, characteristic of certain female mammals, such as cows, sheep, and goats.
noun
A baglike mammary organ containing two or more glands, each with a separate teat, as in cows.
noun
A baglike organ containing the mammary glands, characteristic of certain female mammals, such as cows, sheep, and goats.
noun
A bag-shaped part of a cow and the females of other ruminants in which milk is formed and stored and from which it is taken in suckling or milking.
Part of domestic milk-giving animal that expresses milk, especially cow. Also goat, sheep, yak. See mammary gland.
noun
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Origin of udder
- Middle English from Old English ūder euə-dh-r̥ in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old English Å«der. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *hâ‚ewHdʰrÌ¥-, *hâ‚owHdʰrÌ¥-, *hâ‚uHdʰrÌ¥- (“udder"). Cognates include Sanskrit ऊधरॠ(Å«Ìdhar), Ancient Greek Î¿á½–Î¸Î±Ï (outhar), Latin Å«ber.
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