lactating

1 5.8

Making milk in the body for young animals

adjective
/lækˈteɪtɪŋ/

Specialized

: lactante

Lactating mammals require extra calories to support milk production for their young.

So there's no amount of culture or social coercion can cause men to have lactating breasts.

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Examples

The lactating cow provides fresh milk for the dairy factory.
But a a breast is capable of lactating and a chest is not capable of lactating.
I as a mother, and I'm a lactating mother, I had my third child last.
I'm not lactating but the breasts are massive.
They're always either pregnant or lactating until they die.
No, But what if you're both lactating different?
They're raised to be pregnant whilst also lactating which would increase their hormone profile, which is not great in terms of long term health.
She has piercing blue human like eyes and lactating teats.
If she's lactating and and therefore going through not not ovulating again, that's going to be more months.
And this is partly in order to ensure that you don't have a menstrual cycle while you're lactating, right?

Synonyms

wet

vslactating

34 8.2

Making milk after giving birth

is the technical term for that same milk production

milch

vslactating

Archaic

9.8

An animal that gives milk and is kept for its milk

refers to a female producing milk rather than to being bred for milk

Antonyms

drying up

1 3.2

A process in which water leaves something until it is no longer wet

Surface Forms

lactating positive

Morphology

lactating = lactate (transparent) = lactate + ing

The adjective is a regular present-participle/adjectival form of the verb 'lactate' meaning 'producing milk', so the relation is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Lactating comes from the root lact-, from the old Latin word lac meaning 'milk', and it is the same root you see in lactose, so lactating means 'producing milk'.