Word Meanings - LACTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lactiferous. "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

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• LACTORY
  Lactiferous. "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.
• LACTIFEROUS
  Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.
• MILKY
  1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope. 2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot. 3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon. 4. Mild; tame;