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Lactiferous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to secrete milk or a milky fluid. not-comparable

    "The sprouts proliferate and canalize to form the lactiferous ducts and the outbuddings form the alveoli of the mammary glands."

Etymology

From lacto- + -i- + -ferous.

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