The most characteristic structure, however, and that by which chicory can be easily identified, is the lactiferous tissue.
In some cinchona bark a system of lactiferous vessels is found between the liber and mesophlaeum.
This normal permanence of the female lactiferous organs in BOTH sexes of the higher mammals and man is independent of any selection, and is a fine instance of the much-disputed "inheritance of acquired characters.
The last stage is that the centre of the mammary pit or saucer-like depression once more grows up to form the nipple, and at birth the processes become tubular, thus forming lactiferous ducts.
Before opening at the nipple each lactiferous duct has a fusiform dilatation called the ampulla.
Nothing analogous to this yolk is found in the fetus of lactiferous animals, as the milk is another nutritive fluid ready prepared for the young progeny.
Animal love is another appetite, which occurs later in life, and the females of lactiferous animals have another natural inlet of pleasure or pain from the suckling their offspring.
Ants do not seem to attack lactiferous trees, such as those producing rubber, which therefore flourished in that particular region.
As is well known, the seringueira, which grows wild in the forest there, is one of the most valuable lactiferous plants in the world.
By successive unions, they form large branches, termed the lactiferous ducts, which open by ten to fourteen minute orifices on the extremity of the nipple.
Man possesses the rudiments of the correlative sexual characters of woman, such as nipples withoutlactiferous glands, etc.
After puberty breasts develop with their lactiferous glands and nipples for suction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lactiferous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: lacteal; milk; milky
