Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAC-TES'CENCE
LAC-TES'CENCE, n. [L. lactescens, lactesco, from lacto; lac, milk.]
- Tendency to milk; milkiness or milky color. – Boyle.
- In botany, milkiness; the liquor which flows abundantly from a plant, when wounded, commonly white, but sometimes yellow or red. – Martyn.
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