Of or pertaining to milk; concerned with milk. †Of a plant: Yielding a milky juice.

Botany. Of a plant, or part of one: containing or producing juice or sap which resembles milk.

Milk-producing.

Of plants: Yielding a milky juice.

Of plants and their organs: Conveying or yielding a milky fluid.

Flowing or abounding with milk.

= lactary, adj.; ‘applied to some of the agarics which yield a milky juice’ (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1855).

An erroneous form of lactary, adj. n.