Meanings
plural lactophiles
- A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.
Schottmuller also reports a case associated with urticaria in which he suspected a common etiological factor. He found lactophile bacteria in the urine.
1928, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Practice of Surgery; Clinical, Diagnostic, Operative, Post-operative1 more example
'I decline to live any longer in the same house with them,' declares the wife of an inveterate lactophile in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889).
2001, Matthew Sweet, Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why
Origin
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lactophile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lactophile
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