Lactescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Becoming milky.
  • adj. Milky.
  • adj. Biology Secreting or yielding a milky juice, as certain plants and insects.
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  • adj. milky
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a milky look; becoming milky.
  • adj. Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being or becoming milky; having a milky appearance or consistence.
  • In botany, abounding in a thick milky juice, as the milkweed.
  • In entomology, secreting a milky fluid, as the joints of certain Coleoptera.
    • Word Usage
    "a similar pleasure may be occasioned to the parent by seeing and touching the egg or fetus after its birth; and in lactescent animals an additional pleasure is produced, by the new secretion of milk, as well as by its emission into the sucking lips of the infant."
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