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–adjective

of, pertaining to, or obtained from milk.

[Origin: 1780–90; lact- + -ic

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adj. Of, relating to, or derived from milk.

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lactic
adjective
of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey); "lactic acid"; "lactic fermentation"

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Lactic

Ga*lac"tic\, a. [Gr. ? milky, fr. ?, ?, milk. See Galaxy, and cf. Lactic.]

1. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.

Galactic circle (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. --Herschel.

Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle.

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