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Milky vs Lactean - What's the difference?

milky | lactean |

As adjectives the difference between milky and lactean

is that milky is resembling milk in color or consistency while lactean is milky.

milky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling milk in color or consistency.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • pails high foaming with a milky flood
  • * Arbuthnot
    • milky juice
  • (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  • (colloquial) Cowardly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  • (obsolete) Yielding milk.
  • * Roscommon
    • milky mothers

    lactean

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • milky
    • This lactean whiteness. — Moxon.
  • lacteal; conveying chyle
    • (Webster 1913)