lacteous

lac·te·ous

[lak-tee-uhs]
adjective Archaic.
milky; of the color of milk.

Origin:
1640–50; < Latin lacteus; see lact-, -eous

non·lac·te·ous, adjective
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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