Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing, secreting, or conveying milk.
- adjective Botany Yielding latex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or conveying milk or chyle; lacteal; galactophorous: as, a lactiferous duct. See
duct . - Producing a thick milky juice, as a plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bearing or containing
milk or amilky fluid.
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Examples
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One of these, the deepest, contains little channels called lactiferous vessels because they contain latex.
Chapter 6 1977
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Natural aspects of Spears' pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean's head.
Hullabaloo 2006
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Natural aspects of Spears? pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean?
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These are 'lactiferous sinuses' which is where the milk collects as it comes down.
Chapter 45 1997
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The lactiferous vessels are little tubes that produce latex.
Chapter 6 1977
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The young of the Whale tribe suckle like the young of all mammals; nevertheless I showed, in 1834, that the lactiferous glands in the _Balænopteræ_ differ in structure from the same organs in most mammals.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The smallest lobules consist of a cluster of rounded alveoli, which open into the smallest branches of the lactiferous ducts; these ducts unite to form larger ducts, and these end in a single canal, corresponding with one of the chief subdivisions of the gland.
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It is of a pink or brownish hue, its surface wrinkled and provided with secondary papillæ; and it is perforated by from fifteen to twenty orifices, the apertures of the lactiferous ducts.
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Microscopically, chicory shows numerous thin-walled parenchymatous cells, lactiferous vessels, and sieve tubes with transverse plates.
All About Coffee 1909
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