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udder

a mammary gland, especially when baggy and with more than one teat, as in cows
Not to be confused with:
utter– speak or pronounce:Don’t utter a word.;complete; total; absolute:the utter truth;unconditional; unqualified:He’s an utter liar.
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ud·der

(ŭd′ər)
n.
A baglike organ containing the mammary glands, characteristic of certain female mammals, such as cows, sheep, and goats.

[Middle English, from Old Englishūder;seeeuə-dh-r̥inIndo-European roots.]
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udder

(ˈʌdə)
n
(Zoology) the large baglike mammary gland of cows, sheep, etc, having two or more teats
[Old Englishūder;related to Old High Germanūtar,Old Norsejūr,Latinūber,Sanskritūdhar]
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ud•der

(ˈʌd ər)

n.
a mamma or mammary gland, esp. when baggy and with more than one teat, as in cows.
[before 1000; Middle Englishuddre,Old English, c. German.Euter,Latinūber,Greekoûthar,Sktúdhar]
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ud·der

(ŭd′ər)
A bag-shaped part of a cow and the females of related mammals, in which milk is formed and stored and from which it is taken in suckling or milking.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
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Noun1.udder - mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)udder- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
cow,moo-cow- female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term"
ewe- female sheep
mammary gland,mamma- milk-secreting organ of female mammals
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Translations
ضَرْع، ثَدْي البَقَرَه
vemeno
yver
utare
vime
tõgy
júgur
uber
tesmenis
vemeno
inek memesi

udder

[ˈʌdəʳ]Nubref
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udder

[ˈʌdər]n[cow, goat, sheep] →mamellef(d'un animal)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

udder

nEuternt
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udder

[ˈʌdəʳ]nmammella(di animale)
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udder

(ˈadə)noun
the bag-like part of a cow, goatetc,with teats that supply milk for their young or for humans.The cow has a diseased udder.
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udder

n.ubre, glándula mamaria de la vaca y otros animales mamíferos.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
Out of thy poisons brewedst thou balsam for thyself; thy cow, affliction, milkedst thou--now drinketh thou the sweet milk of herudder.
The calf, fumbling, poked her nose under her mother'sudder,and stiffened her tail out straight.
A fine brindled cow with a largeudderwas attached to the cart behind.
He had brought another, a young one, with him, whoseudderwas filled with milk, which he gave to the little ones, and kissed their lips.
The woman, who was very handsome, waited till my mother had finished her angry words; then she looked up and spoke slowly, "There is a cow by you with milk dropping from itsudder;will you not even give me and my boy a gourd of milk? "And she took a gourd from her bundle and held it towards us.
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as anudderto feed our supreme selves: Dorothea had early begun to emerge from that stupidity, but yet it had been easier to her to imagine how she would devote herself to Mr.
In five years the Portuguese skimmed the cream and dried up theudder.The second lease, with another Portuguese for three years, gave one-quarter the former return.
Their large-veineduddershung ponderous as sandbags, the teats sticking out like the legs of a gipsy's crock; and as each animal lingered for her turn to arrive the milk oozed forth and fell in drops to the ground.
There were a number of the same vicious wolf-dogs which we had left worrying the dyryth, and many goatlike animals whose distendeduddersexplained the reasons for their presence.
"Thus, then, did we wait in great fear of mind till morning came, but when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, the male sheep hurried out to feed, while the ewes remained bleating about the pens waiting to be milked, for theirudderswere full to bursting; but their master in spite of all his pain felt the backs of all the sheep as they stood upright, without being sharp enough to find out that the men were underneath their bellies.
He had a trick of pulling the sheet up over his head, as if thus he could shut out the world, but always his father was there to rout him out from this nest and set him none too gently on his feet; always there was a herd to be brought in anduddersto be emptied.
The great and inherited development of theuddersin cows and goats in countries where they are habitually milked, in comparison with the state of these organs in other countries, is another instance of the effect of use.