milk whey

1. 1.

   the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese

   Synonymswhey

   Broaderserum

Questions about milk whey

What does milk whey mean?

milk whey means "the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese".

What is another word for milk whey?

Close synonyms include whey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is milk whey a common word?

milk whey is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.