"milkshed" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: milksheds [plural]
Etymology: From milk + shed, by analogy with watershed. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|milk|shed}} milk + shed, {{m|en|watershed}} watershed Head templates: {{en-noun}} milkshed (plural milksheds)
  1. (agriculture, economics) A region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand with practical (competitively advantageous) speed and cost of transport. Categories (topical): Agriculture, Economics, Dairy farming
    Sense id: en-milkshed-en-noun-tZgB2Z88 Disambiguation of Dairy farming: 88 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 81 19 Topics: agriculture, business, economics, lifestyle, science, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: milksheds [plural]
Etymology: From milk + shed, as analogous with woodshed or toolshed. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|milk|shed}} milk + shed, {{m|en|woodshed}} woodshed, {{m|en|toolshed}} toolshed Head templates: {{en-noun}} milkshed (plural milksheds)
  1. A shed in which animals are milked. (Contrast milkhouse, a building or portion thereof where milk is cooled and stored pending transport.) Translations (a shed in which animals are milked): bleánlann [feminine] (Irish), mungitoio [masculine] (Italian), whare miraka (Maori), whare whakatētē kau (Maori)
    Sense id: en-milkshed-en-noun---7RUKAK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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