lactescence

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noun

The quality or state of producing milk, or milky sap.

“serum lactescence found in patients with nephrosis”

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Meanings

nounlactescence (countable and uncountable, plural lactescences)

plural lactescences

  1. countableuncountableThe quality or state of producing milk, or milky sap.
  2. countableuncountableResemblance to milk; milkiness or a milky colour.

    serum lactescence found in patients with nephrosis

    1 more example

    [T]his Lacteſcence, if I may ſo call it, does alſo commonly enſue vvhen […] fair VVater is ſuddenly pour'd upon the Tincture or Solution.

    1664, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII”, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part II (Of the Nature of Whiteness and Blackness), page 169
  3. countableuncountablebiologyThe latex of certain plants.

Origin

Compare French lactescence.

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APA

lactescence. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lactescence

MLA

“lactescence.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lactescence. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lactescence,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lactescence.

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