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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lactifuge

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lac-t-ifuge
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body

Etymology

From Latin lac (“milk”, stem lact-) + -fuge.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

lactifuges (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

lactifugal

Questions

What does lactifuge mean?
A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body
Where does lactifuge come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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