Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by agalactia.
  • Not nursed, as a hand-fed infant.
  • Serving to check the secretion of milk; lactifugal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Lacking milk to suckle with.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Lacking milk to suckle with.

Etymologies

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See a-, galactic.

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Examples

  • - Medicine, absence or lack of milk secretion. agalactic, agalactous, agamogenesis

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