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lactescent

[ lak-tes-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. becoming or being milky.
  2. Botany, Entomology. secreting or producing a milky juice.


lactescent

/ æˈɛəԳ /

adjective

  1. (of plants and certain insects) secreting a milky fluid
  2. milky or becoming milky
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٱԳ, noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lactescent1

1660–70; < Latin ŧԳ- (stem of ŧŧԲ ), present participle of ŧ to turn into milk, produce milk. See lact-, -escent
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lactescent1

C18: from Latin ٱŧԲ, from ٱŧ to become milky, from lact-, lac milk
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Example Sentences

Aarfy shook his head regretfully again and lowered his obscene, lactescent ear almost directly into Yossarian’s face.

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By the third day of the eruptive stage there is usually evident at the apex of the older lesions a minute vesicle containing a drop of pellucid serum, which rapidly changes in character and size till a distinct vesicle is formed with cloudy or lactescent contents.

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Thus, the maculo-papules may never reach a vesicular stage, or, having attained this, the vesicles may not be umbilicated, or may shrivel after their contents have assumed a lactescent color, and be succeeded by light superficial crusts which in a few days fall.

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Umbilication rapidly occurs at the apex, and simultaneously their contents become lactescent and gradually sero-purulent.

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In 1746, A. de Jussieu, Col de Villars, and Fontaine advanced in support of this theory the fact that they had found, on opening the abdomen in women who had died from an epidemic which raged that year in Paris, a free lactescent fluid in the lower portion of the abdominal cavity and clotted milk adherent to the intestines.

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