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Lacteal

Definitions: Lacteal

Lacteal

Adjective

1. Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk; "lacteal fluids"; "lacteal organs".

Noun

1. Any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms within Context: Lacteal

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Semiliquidity

Adjective: semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose; half melted, half frozen; milky, muddy. Noun: lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lacteal

English words defined with "lacteal": Lactean, Lacteousthoracic duct. (references)
Etymologies containing "lacteal": GalaxyLactage, Lactean, Lacteous, lactic. (references)

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Modern Translations: Lacteal

Language Translations for "lacteal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏لبني (lactic, milky), ‏سن الرضاعة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хилусен, млечен (lacteous, lactescent, lactic, milk, milky). (various references)

   

Danish

  

maelkeaare (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

melkader (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maitosuoni (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein). (various references)

   

French

  

lacté. (various references)

   

German

  

Milchader (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein), milch- (lacteal-, milk). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαστική φλέβα (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein). (various references)

   

Italian

  

latteo (milky). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bluight (galactic, king cup, lactiferous), bainnoil. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acteallay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lactação (fostering, lactation, milk secretion, suckling). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

молочный (dairy, deciduous, lactic, milch, milk, milky), млечный (milky). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lácteo (dairy, galactic, milk, milky). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mjölkådra (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

lenfa damarı, sütlü (milky, with milk), süte benzer. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

молочний (deciduous, lactescent, lactic, mammary, milch, milky). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lacteal

Derivations

Words beginning with "lacteal": lacteals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lacteal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acetal, actea, Alacatel, Alactel, Easteal, glassteel, latea, luteal, luteola. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lacteal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-t"

-1 letter: acetal, callet.

-2 letters: aceta, alate, calla, cella, cleat, eclat.

-3 letters: acta, alae, alec, call, cate, cell, celt, lace, late, leal, tace, tael, tala, talc, tale, tall, teal, tela, tell.

-4 letters: aal, ace, act, ala, ale, all, alt, ate, cat, cel, eat, ell, eta, lac, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel.

-5 letters: aa, ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-t"
 

+1 letter: allocate, lacteals.

 

+2 letters: allocated, allocates, calculate, castellan, catcalled, dialectal, locatable, placental, vacillate.

 

+3 letters: calculated, calculates, cantillate, carnallite, carpellate, castellans, cavalletti, chelatable, collateral, lanceolate, paclitaxel, placentals, reallocate, salicylate, saltcellar, ultraclean, vacillated, vacillates.

 

+4 letters: accentually, acropetally, allocatable, ancestrally, anecdotally, aphetically, articulable, ascetically, aseptically, bacterially, bidialectal, cantillated, cantillates, carnallites, castellated, caterpillar, collaborate, collaterals, collectanea, dialectally, dialectical, elastically, erratically, gametically, hallucinate, misallocate, paclitaxels, racquetball, reallocated, reallocates, recalculate, relocatable, salicylates, saltcellars, syllabicate, tetanically, unallocated.

 

+5 letters: accidentally, adjectivally, allelopathic, alphabetical, anticlerical, archetypally, articulately, athletically, bathetically, beatifically, calculatedly, cancellation, caterpillars, circulatable, cleanability, collaborated, collaborates, collaterally, correlatable, cultivatable, ecstatically, emblematical, empathically, emphatically, extralogical, hallucinated, hallucinates, hieratically, immaculately, interglacial, leachability, magnetically, majestically, metallically, misallocated, misallocates, miscalculate, oblanceolate, octahedrally, operatically, pathetically, pedantically, racquetballs, reallocating, reallocation, recalculated, recalculates, sacerdotally, semantically, syllabicated, syllabicates, telencephala, theatrically, thematically, ultracareful, uncalculated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lacteal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 63 74 65 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    -.-.    -    .    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#101 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0063 0074 0065 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46676986716778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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