milk replacer

English

Noun

milk replacer (countable and uncountable, plural milk replacers)

1. Liquid nutrition having nutritional qualities comparable to mother's milk that is given to young animals when mother's milk is not available.

Coordinate terms

• baby formula (the analogue for human babies)

Translations

liquid nutrition that is given to young animals

• Finnish: maidonvastike (pets); juottorehu (production animals)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melkeerstatning c, mjølkeerstatning c

  Nynorsk: mjølkeerstatning f

See also

• bottlefeeding
• milk substitute