Adjacent Words

Lactescent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LACTES'CENT, a.
1. Producing milk or white juice.
2. Abounding with a thick colored juice.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 milky. 2 yielding a milky juice.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lactescent Lac*tes"cent, a. [L. lactescens, p. pr. of lactescere to turn to milk, incho. fr. lactere to be milky, fr. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactescent.] 1. Having a milky look; becoming milky. [Obs.] 2. (Bot.) Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex.