lacteal

Example Sentences

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According to them, it is “the lacteal secretion of a healthy, hooved mammal.”

From The Guardian

Knight’s bill defines milk as the “lacteal secretion” from a list of animals that includes cows, water buffalo, sheep, goats, yaks, deer, reindeer, moose, horses and donkeys.

From Washington Times

The FDA bristled and provided the federal definition of milk as a “lacteal secretion” from cows.

From Los Angeles Times

Those vary from the obvious — such as the oft-referenced milk is “the lacteal secretion” of cows — to more obscure requirements on the presence of additives and emulsifiers.

From Washington Post

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.

From Project Gutenberg