lactific

English

Alternative forms

• lactifical (rare)

Etymology

From Latin lac, lactis (“milk”) + facere (“to make”).

Adjective

lactific (comparative more lactific, superlative most lactific)

1. Producing or yielding milk.
   • 2003, E. P. Evans, Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture, page 37:

     The necklace of clear rock-crystal, still commonly worn by wet-nurses, is a survival of the belief in the lactific virtue of this variety of limpid quartz.