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lactation

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Noun
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lac=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

lactationn. 
     The secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland; giving suck.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lactation, n.
1 the secretion of milk by the mammary glands.
2 the suckling of young.

Etymology
L lactare suckle f. lac lactis milk

THESAURUS

lactation

chyle, chylifaction, chylification, colostrum, discharge, excretion, external secretion, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gleet, humor, ichor, internal secretion, juiciness, lachryma, lacrimation, lactescence, leukorrhea, liquefaction, liquidness, lymph, matter, milk, milkiness, moisture, mucor, mucus, peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, pus, rheum, rheuminess, saliva, sanies, sappiness, secernment, secreta, secretion, serosity, serous fluid, serum, snot, succulence, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urine, wateriness, weeping

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