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lactophile

lactophile noun: a person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.

Noun

lactophile (plural lactophiles)

  1. A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.
    • Schottmuller also reports a case associated with urticaria in which he suspected a common etiological factor. He found lactophile bacteria in the urine.1928, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Practice of Surgery; Clinical, Diagnostic, Operative, Post-operative
    • 'I decline to live any longer in the same house with them,' declares the wife of an inveterate lactophile in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889).2001, Matthew Sweet, Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why

Forms of lactophile

plurallactophiles

Origin of lactophile

From lacto- + -phile.

Questions about lactophile

What does lactophile mean?
Lactophile means a person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.
What part of speech is lactophile?
Lactophile is a noun.
What is the plural of lactophile?
The plural of lactophile is lactophiles.

Words near lactophile in the dictionary

  1. lactoovovegetarian
  2. lactoovovegetarians
  3. lactoperoxidase
  4. lactoperoxidases
  5. lactophenol
  6. lactophile
  7. lactophiles
  8. lactophilia
  9. lactophorin
  10. lactopoiesis
  11. lactoproteid

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