galactophagous
galactophagous adjective: consuming milk.
Adjective
galactophagous (not comparable)
- Consuming milk.
- The oldest explicit information concerning a Nomado-Slavic State on the lower Danube is to be found in Pseudo-Caesarius of the Nazianzus of the sixth – probably even the fourth – century A.D., viz. that of the galactophagous Phisonitae or Danubians […] and the vegetarian Slavs.1913, John Bagnell Bury, editor, The Cambridge Medieval History, page 432
- I am reading Herodotus, who describes in detail and with great fidelity these same galactophagous Scythians among whom I am living.1918, George Rapall Noyes, quoting Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy, letter to Fet, page 141
Origin of galactophagous
From γαλακτοφάγος (galaktophágos, “milk-fed”).
Questions about galactophagous
- What does galactophagous mean?
- Galactophagous means consuming milk.
- What part of speech is galactophagous?
- Galactophagous is an adjective.
Words near galactophagous in the dictionary
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