lactophile

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

lacto- +‎ -phile

Noun[edit]

lactophile (plural lactophiles)

  1. A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.
    • 1928, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Practice of Surgery; Clinical, Diagnostic, Operative, Post-operative:
      Schottmuller also reports a case associated with urticaria in which he suspected a common etiological factor. He found lactophile bacteria in the urine.
    • 2001, Matthew Sweet, Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why:
      'I decline to live any longer in the same house with them,' declares the wife of an inveterate lactophile in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889).

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