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lactifluous

lactifluous adjective: flowing with milk.

Adjective

lactifluous (comparative more lactifluous, superlative most lactifluous)

  1. flowing with milk
    • Me. But how does that appear? Og. Oh, the nun at Constantinople that gave it said so. Me. It may be she had it of St. Bernard. Og. I believe she had. Me. He, when he was very old, had the happiness to taste milk from the same nipple which the child Jesus sucked, whence I wonder he was not rather...1518, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Religious Pilgrimage”, in Colloquies
    • But the pronouncing aright of California names is only a part of the duty. There needs to be a present crusade for the preservation of our historical names from oblivion.¶ It is not so much the lactifluous tenderfoot who is our danger in this case, but the wax-witted Philistines of the Post Office...1904 June, Charles F[letcher] Lummis, “The Lion's Den”, in Out West, volume 20, number 6, page 568
    Synonyms:
    milky, kiddish, nursing, with milk, childly, lactating

Examples of lactifluous in a sentence

  • He, when he was very old, had the happiness to taste milk from the same nipple which the child Jesus sucked, whence I wonder he was not rather called Lactifluous than Mellifluous.1518, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Religious Pilgrimage”, in Colloquies:
  • The bare teats of the human females bored out from this two-dimensional undergrowth like the barrels of lactifluous guns.1997, Will Self, Great Apes, A&C Black, published 2011, page 385:

Synonyms of lactifluous

Forms of lactifluous

comparativemore lactifluous
superlativemost lactifluous

Questions about lactifluous

What does lactifluous mean?
Lactifluous means flowing with milk.
How do you use lactifluous in a sentence?
He, when he was very old, had the happiness to taste milk from the same nipple which the child Jesus sucked, whence I wonder he was not rather called Lactifluous than Mellifluous.
What part of speech is lactifluous?
Lactifluous is an adjective.

Words near lactifluous in the dictionary

  1. lactiferousness
  2. lactific
  3. lactification
  4. lactified
  5. lactifies
  6. lactifluous
  7. lactiform
  8. lactifugal
  9. lactifuge
  10. lactifuges
  11. lactify

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