lactophile

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noun

A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounlactophile (plural lactophiles)

plural lactophiles

  1. 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-operative
    1 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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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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