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milfoil

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Milfoil or goosetongue, a yarrow, is used in liqueurs and to make bitters and in the manufacturer of some cosmetics. It has some quality which makes it inadvisable for women during pregnancy.

milk

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Milk is produced by mammals to feed their young. It is a white liquid produced in the mammary glands and provides the neonate with fats and proteins, calcium and Vitamin C necessary for development, as well as transferring the mother’s antibodies to the young for protection against disease.

milk bread

/milk brehd/
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Soft, fine-doughed bread made with milk.

milk cap mushroom

[English] plural milk cap mushrooms

Milk caps are a type of mushroom which is generally not edible.

milk fat

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The fatty particles in milk which are separated out to make cream, from which butter is then made. This is a high fat dairy product.

milkfish

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Bangus or milkfish. A large, silver, bony fish popular in the South Pacific and Indian ocean. It has a delicate flavour, rather similar to whitefish, and has greenish-grey skin. It is cultivated in brackish fish ponds.

milk fungus

[English] plural milk funghi

Saffron milk cap. It exudes milk when cut and is usually served fried or cold with a vinaigrette.

milk grass

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Lamb's lettuce (US: corn salad).

milk mushroom

[English] plural milk mushrooms

Saffron milk cap. It exudes milk when cut and is usually served fried or cold with a vinaigrette.

milk sugar

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Lactose. A sugar found in milk. It is a disaccharide.