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English
Etymology
See lacteal.
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Adjective
lacteous (comparative more lacteous, superlative most lacteous)
- Milky; resembling milk.
1686, Thomas Brown, The Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, Kt:For though we leave out the Lacteous circle (which Aratus, Geminus, and Proclus, out of him hath numbered among the rest) yet are there more by four than Philo mentions ; that is, the Horizon, Meridian and both the Colures ; circles very considerable
- Lacteal; conveying chyle.
lacteous vessels
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