crop milk

English

Noun

crop milk (countable and uncountable, plural crop milks)

1. A semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also secreted from the esophagus of flamingos and some penguins.

Hyponyms

• dove milk
• dove's milk
• flamingo milk
• penguin milk
• pigeon milk
• pigeon's milk

Translations

“milk” from a bird’s crop

• Danish: kromælk c, duemælk c
• Esperanto: kropolakto, kolombolakto
• French: lait de jabot m, lait de pigeon m
• German: Kropfmilch f, Taubenmilch (de) f
• Italian: latte del gozzo m, latte di piccione m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kromelk m or f, kromjølk m or f, duemelk m or f, duemjølk m or f

  Nynorsk: kromjølk f, duemjølk f

• Polish: ptasie mleczko (pl) n
• Portuguese: leite de papo m, leite de pombo m
• Russian: зо́бное молоко́ n (zóbnoje molokó), пти́чье молоко́ (ru) n (ptíčʹje molokó), голуби́ное молоко́ n (golubínoje molokó)
• Spanish: leche de buche f
• Swedish: krävmjölk c, duvmjölk c