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Lacteal

adjective
1.
Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk.  "Lacteal organs"





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"Lacteal" Quotes from Famous Books



... his trunk while Ferguson Pogue talked. No one could be franker or more candid in his conversation. Beside his expression the cry of Henry James for lacteal nourishment at the age of one month would have seemed like a Chaldean cryptogram. He told me stories of his profession with pride, for he considered it an art. And I was curious enough to ask him whether he had known any women ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... make sure of what he said, the sailor dropped down upon his knees by the hind-quarters of the prostrate camel; and, taking one of the teats in his mouth, commenced drawing forth the lacteal fluid which the ...
— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid


Words linked to "Lacteal" :   milk, lymph vessel, lymphatic vessel


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