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Lacteal
Lacteal Lac"te*al, a. [L. lacteus milky, fr. lac, lactis, milk. Cf. Galaxy, Lettuce.] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid. 2. (Anat. & Physiol.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
Lacteal
Lacteal Lac"te*al, n. (Anat.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
Lacteally
Lacteally Lac"te*al*ly, adv. Milkily; in the manner of milk.
Lactean
Lactean Lac"te*an, a. [See Lacteal.] 1. Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. ``This lactean whiteness.' --Moxon. 2. (Anat. & Physiol.) Lacteal; conveying chyle.
Via Lactea
Via Vi"a, n. [L. See Way.] A road way. Via Lactea [L.] (Anat.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1. Via media [L.] (Theol.), the middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.

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- across the night sky. The term is a translation of the classical Latin via lactea, in turn derived from the ****enistic Gr**** γαλαξίας, short for γαλαξίας...
- Euphorbia lactea is a species of spurge native to arid and subtropical regions of South Asia, mainly the Indian Subcontinent. Common names include mottled...
- Otala lactea, known as the milk snail or Spanish snail, is a large, edible species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk...
- small pratincole, little pratincole, or small Indian pratincole (Glareola lactea) is a small wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. The small pratincole...
- Malesherbia lactea is a perennial geophyte native to the La Rioja and San Juan regions of Argentina and the Anto****asta and Atacama regions of Chile. It...
- lactea (Møller, 1842) Tachyrhynchus reticulatis Turritella areolata Stimpson, 1851 Turritella erosa var. costata Aurivillius, 1885 Turritella lactea Møller...
- Austruca mjoebergi is a species of fiddler crab discovered by and named after the Swedish zoologist Eric Mjöberg (1882–1938), member of a Swedish scientific...
- albums such as Rocanlover, Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea and Reptilectric. Zoé's history begins in Mexico in 1994, with slight influences...
- Industrias Lácteas Asturianas (Ilas) is a company based in the Asturian parish of Anleo in the council of Navia, Spain. In 1960 Francisco Rodríguez, current...
- A Via-Láctea is the third studio album and second solo album by singer and composer Lô Borges, released in 1979 after a seven-year hiatus. 1972, with the...