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Lactific vs Lactiferous - What's the difference?

lactific | lactiferous |

As adjectives the difference between lactific and lactiferous

is that lactific is producing or yielding milk while lactiferous is bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid.

lactific

English

Alternative forms

* lactifical (rare)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Producing or yielding milk.
  • * 2003 , E. P. Evans, Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (page 37)
    • The necklace of clear rock-crystal, still commonly worn by wet-nurses, is a survival of the belief in the lactific virtue of this variety of limpid quartz.

    lactiferous

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid.