Word of the Day:
lactic
What It Means
Of, relating to, or derived from milk.
Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.
lactic fermentation
Lactic in Context
“In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]”
Did You Know?
From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.
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