Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Conveying or producing milk; lactiferous.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy Milk-carrying; applied to the ducts of mammary glands.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek. Compare lactiferous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Lymphatic Vessels of the Mamma originate in a plexus in the interlobular spaces and on the walls of the galactophorous ducts.”
VIII. The Lymphatic System. 7. The Lymphatic Vessels of the Thorax
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘galactophorous’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Carry Me Home Again
Another kind of bear list, in conjunction with Carry Me Home: words deriving from the Greek pherein, ("to carry") or phoros, ("a carrying").
metaphor, euphoria, diaphoresis, anaphora, amphora, periphery, pheromone, telpher, tocopherol, chromatophore, gonophore, phoresy and 45 more...
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five and seven syllables
for less wordy haiku ...
galactometer, galactophagist, galactophorous, galeanthropy, galericulate, galimatias, gallinaceous, gallomania, gallophobia, galvanometer, gamogenesis, gamomania and 6 more...
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reesetee Bearing milk; lactiferous. Feb 9, 2008