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Noun
This includes magnesium aspartate, citrate, lactate, and chloride.—Patricia Mikula, Health, 28 Apr. 2025 That’s not just being persnickety about terminology: lactate and hydrogen ions behave differently than lactic acid would.—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 24 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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