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Noun
Certain forms, such as magnesium aspartate, citrate, lactate, and chloride, are also better absorbed by the body.—Ashley Wong, Health, 27 May 2025 This includes magnesium aspartate, citrate, lactate, and chloride.—Patricia Mikula, Health, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
Bear advocates insist hunters killed lactating female bears and bears qualified as cubs.—Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 May 2025 The images are still on my cell phone, photos taken of bears bleeding from the nose, some the size of a German shepherd and another who was called Grandfather Bear by locals; one of the first bears killed was a lactating mother.—Susan Hargreaves, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lactate
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Etymology
Verb
Latin lactatus, past participle of lactare, from lact-, lac
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