milk vs buttermilk

buttermilk vs milk

milk and buttermilk both are nouns.

milk is a verb but buttermilk is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
milk	Yes	No	Yes	No
buttermilk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, buttermilk is a hyponym of milk; that is, buttermilk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than milk:

milk: a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
buttermilk: residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture

Other hyponyms of milk include sour milk, pasteurized milk, cows' milk, yak's milk, goats' milk, acidophilus milk, raw milk, scalded milk, homogenized milk, certified milk, dried milk, dry milk, milk powder, powdered milk, evaporated milk, condensed milk, skim milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, whole milk, low-fat milk, chocolate milk.

milk (noun)	buttermilk (noun)
produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young	residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
any of several nutritive milklike liquids

milk (verb)	buttermilk (verb)
take milk from female mammals
add milk to
exploit as much as possible

Difference between milk and buttermilk

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