lactophile

English

Etymology

lacto- +‎ -phile

Noun

lactophile (plural lactophiles)

1. A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.
   • 1928, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Practice of Surgery; Clinical, Diagnostic, Operative, Post-operative:

     Schottmuller also reports a case associated with urticaria in which he suspected a common etiological factor. He found lactophile bacteria in the urine.

   • 2001, Matthew Sweet, Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why:

     'I decline to live any longer in the same house with them,' declares the wife of an inveterate lactophile in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889).

Related terms

• lactophilia