† ˈlactifer Obs. rare—1.
[a. late L. lactifer milk-bearing, f. lact(i)-, lac milk + -fer bearing.]
A lactiferous vessel.
| 1673–4 Grew Anat. Plants iii. i. ii. §16 (1682) 109 The outmost which make the other Rings [of the Bark] in Arched Parcels, are the Lactifers. |