Search Result for "lactate":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a salt or ester of lactic acid;


VERB (1)

1. give suck to;
- Example: "The wetnurse suckled the infant"
- Example: "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
[syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lactate \Lac"tate\, n. [L. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactate.]
   (Chem.)
   A salt of lactic acid.
   [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "lactate":
   aliment, breast-feed, dry-nurse, excrete, fatten, fatten up,
   force-feed, foster, give out, nourish, nurse, nurture, nutrify,
   produce, secern, secrete, stuff, suckle, tear, water, weep,
   wet-nurse