galactophagous
English
editEtymology
editFrom γαλακτοφάγος (galaktophágos, “milk-fed”).
Adjective
editgalactophagous (not comparable)
- (rare) Consuming milk.
- 1913, John Bagnell Bury, editor, The Cambridge Medieval History[1], page 432:
- The oldest explicit information concerning a Nomado-Slavic State on the lower Danube is to be found in Pseudo-Caesarius of the Nazianzus of the sixth – probably even the fourth – century A.D., viz. that of the galactophagous Phisonitae or Danubians […] and the vegetarian Slavs.
- 1918, George Rapall Noyes, quoting Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy[2], letter to Fet, page 141:
- I am reading Herodotus, who describes in detail and with great fidelity these same galactophagous Scythians among whom I am living.