lactescent
/lakˈtɛs(ə)nt
/adjective
1Milky in appearance.When the crystallization has terminated, the autoclave is cooled and a lactescent suspension is discharged....
- In the file sheet 1, a plurality of square recesses 4, which serve as portions for receiving films, are arrayed in a transparent or lactescent planar square plastic sheet 3.
- Just looking at the lactescent SavMart or the uninhabited appearance of Sy's apartment is enough to make you feel hollow inside.
1.1 Botany Yielding a milky latex.It is brownish-yellow outside, whitish and lactescent within, having an acrid taste and disagreeable odour.
Derivatives
lactescence
/ noun ...- In fact, patients with severe nephrotic syndrome exhibited lactescence of the serum.
- To produce lactescence it is necessary for fat to be emulsified into chylomicra greater than 0.1 in diameter to be rendered visible.
- It could be observed whether bilirubin, haemoglobin or lactescence of the samples interfere with the measurement procedure.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin lactescent- 'being milky', from the verb lactere, from lac, lact- 'milk'.