Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicine which checks or diminishes the secretion of milk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
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- noun medicine A
medicine tocheck thesecretion ofmilk , or todispel a supposedaccumulation of milk in any part of the body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any agent that reduces milk secretion (as given to a woman who is not breast feeding)
Etymologies
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Latin lactis "milk" and fugare "to expel".
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a lactifuge; 2 handfuls of flowers bruised and applied without moistening, once or twice a day, sometimes checks the secretion of the milk within 24 hours, but generally 2 or 3 days are required for
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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