Lactant

Quick meaning: Lactant is an adjective meaning lactating; producing milk.

Meaning

lactating; producing milk.

More Meanings

1. A lactating mother; A mother who is suckling offspring.

Example Sentences

Suppose the farmer purchased 3 buffalloes on 1-6-1981 and it is assumed that they were lactant on 1-5-1981.

Even if a lactant has taken a poison, it will, as the hitherto literature shows, scarcely be excreted into her milk.

[…] to provide adequate diets to families which have either a pregnant or a lactant woman. It also shows that to provide an adequate diet to a family with a pregnant woman would cost Cr $8.34 / month ( Cr$60.34 ) less than to feed the same family with a lactant woman.

Of the total number of 44 females captured, 11 (25.0%) were sterile, not participating, for various reasons, in reproduction; 4 females (9.1%) were pregnant with embryos 20 to 28 mm in length, and 29 females (65.9%) were lactant, one to ten days following parturition.

Word Forms

• lactants

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nursing, sucking, nurshing, libant, laitand, sucktastic.

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