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Lactescent   Listen
adjective
Lactescent  adj.  
1.
Having a milky look; becoming milky. (Obs.)
2.
(Bot.) Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lactescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture &c 339; marsh &c 345. V. inspissate^, incrassate^; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up. sinter. Adj. semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose^; half melted, half frozen; milky, muddy &c n.; lacteal, lactean^, lacteous^, lactescent^, lactiferous^; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous^. gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous^, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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