milkstone en · NOUN
Etymology
From milk + stone.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Any stone, such as galactite, thought to increase milk production in mammals.
- (uncountable) Certain white stones.
- (uncountable) A hard body that forms in a mammalian udder.
- (uncountable) A layer of scale that forms on milk-processing equipment, mainly formed of cations of calcium and magnesium.