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lactescent

[ lak-tes-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. becoming or being milky.
  2. Botany, Entomology. secreting or producing a milky juice.


lactescent

/ 濒忙办藞迟蓻蝉蓹苍迟 /

adjective

  1. (of plants and certain insects) secreting a milky fluid
  2. milky or becoming milky
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 濒补肠藞迟别蝉肠别苍肠别, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 濒补肠路迟别蝉顎僣别苍肠别 濒补肠路迟别蝉顎僣别苍路肠测 noun
  • 苍辞苍顎卨补肠路迟别蝉顎僣别苍迟 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lactescent1

1660鈥70; < Latin 濒补肠迟脓蝉肠别苍迟- (stem of 濒补肠迟脓蝉肠脓苍蝉 ), present participle of 濒补肠迟脓蝉肠别谤别 to turn into milk, produce milk. See lact-, -escent
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lactescent1

C18: from Latin 濒补肠迟别蝉肠脓苍蝉, from 濒补肠迟别蝉肠脓谤别 to become milky, from lact-, lac milk
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Aarfy shook his head regretfully again and lowered his obscene, lactescent ear almost directly into Yossarian鈥檚 face.

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Thus, the maculo-papules may never reach a vesicular stage, or, having attained this, the vesicles may not be umbilicated, or may shrivel after their contents have assumed a lactescent color, and be succeeded by light superficial crusts which in a few days fall.

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By the third day of the eruptive stage there is usually evident at the apex of the older lesions a minute vesicle containing a drop of pellucid serum, which rapidly changes in character and size till a distinct vesicle is formed with cloudy or lactescent contents.

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Umbilication rapidly occurs at the apex, and simultaneously their contents become lactescent and gradually sero-purulent.

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In 1746, A. de Jussieu, Col de Villars, and Fontaine advanced in support of this theory the fact that they had found, on opening the abdomen in women who had died from an epidemic which raged that year in Paris, a free lactescent fluid in the lower portion of the abdominal cavity and clotted milk adherent to the intestines.

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