lacteous

See lacteal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæktiəs/

lacteous (comparative more lacteous, superlative most lacteous) (archaic)

1. Milky; resembling milk.
   • 1686, Thomas Brown, The Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, Kt‎^[1]:

     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

2. Lacteal; conveying chyle.

   lacteous vessels

• (resembling milk): lactean, lactescent; see also Thesaurus:lacteous
• (conveying chyle): lactean

• “lacteous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• costulae, locustae, osculate, scale out, scaleout