BUTTERMILK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buttermilk mean? 

• BUTTERMILK (noun)
  The noun BUTTERMILK has 1 sense:

1. residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture

  Familiarity information: BUTTERMILK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTERMILK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("buttermilk" is a kind of...):

milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)

 Context examples 

L cremoris is a member of the commensal flora of bovine skin, is used in the manufacturing of cheese and buttermilk and is an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients.

(Lactococcus lactis subsp cremoris, NCI Thesaurus)

Most significantly this microorganism is used commercially in the production of buttermilk and cheese.

(Lactococcus lactis, NCI Thesaurus)

They also used different plasters on some walls, and smeared the surfaces with buttermilk or potato starch solutions to trigger moss and mould to grow.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)