lacteal

According to them, it is “the lacteal secretion of a healthy, hooved mammal.”

Knight’s bill defines milk as the “lacteal secretion” from a list of animals that includes cows, water buffalo, sheep, goats, yaks, deer, reindeer, moose, horses and donkeys.

The FDA bristled and provided the federal definition of milk as a “lacteal secretion” from cows.

Those vary from the obvious — such as the oft-referenced milk is “the lacteal secretion” of cows — to more obscure requirements on the presence of additives and emulsifiers.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.