lactant means lactating; producing milk. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin lactans, present participle of lactare (“to suck”), from lac, lactis (“milk”).
adj
- lactating; producing milk.“Under the circumstances where the hypophysectomized mothers (and unexpectedly, two control mothers) could not lactate, a schedule for the re-shuffling of test young between lactant and non-lactant mothers was instituted ( this was arranged so that each test young was alternately under the care of a pair of lactant and non-lactant mothers) .”
noun
- A lactating mother; A mother who is suckling offspring.“Even if a lactant has taken a poison, it will, as the hitherto literature shows, scarcely be excreted into her milk.”