English

Noun

colostrum ‎(usually uncountable, plural colostra)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Synonyms

• beastings
• beest
• beestings
• beistings
• beistyn
• biestings
• bisnings
• first milk
• fore-milk
• green milk

Translations

Latin

Noun

colostrum

1. colostrum, beestings

Descendants

References

• colostrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “colostrum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.