lactifuge
English
Etymology
Latin lactis (“milk”) and fugare (“to expel”).
Noun
lactifuge (plural lactifuges)
- (medicine) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lactifuge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)