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A sausage is a sausage, no matter what you stuff inside it. It's the shape, use and all the practicalities of a sausage that determine that it's a sausage.
When I hear "sausage" I know what to do with the thing. I can't know what it includes.
Beef? Pork? Chicken? Horse? Peas? Beans? Mushroom? Tofu? That's to be determined by the other words on the package.
That is limited to english vocabulary I guess. In spanish there are distictions between salchichas, chorizos, longanizas, etc, and all of them are their own kind of "embutidos". So in spanish, it would make sense to name it "embutido de guisantes"
Similarly with milk. I know you may milk nuts (jk), but not the "frutos secos" kind. How would you milk an oatmeal? A grain of rice?
And this is about the English word in the English use, with English rules, so let's stick to those, shall we.
Milk is another word with another angle. The connotation is no longer, in everyday layman use, connected to "something you get out of a teet" and instead it is what children drink, you put in cereals or coffee, etc.
That's the beauty about languages, they evolve with the needs of the populace that uses them.
We no longer live in an agrarian society, so when somebody now speaks of milk, you don't think, "what did they milk it from", you think "what are they going to put that thing in that they bought from a shop".
Milk of Magnesia. Coconut milk. Dandelion milk. These are all descriptions of very long standing (100s of years).