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Meaning of lactophile | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.

Examples

“Schottmuller also reports a case associated with urticaria in which he suspected a common etiological factor. He found lactophile bacteria in the urine.”

“'I decline to live any longer in the same house with them,' declares the wife of an inveterate lactophile in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889).”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

lactophilia lactophorin lactopoiesis lactoproteid lactoprotein lactoquinomycin