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"text": "1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51,\n[…] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities."
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"ref": "1963 [1962], Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 156:",
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"text": "1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30,\nShot up from broad rank blades that droop below,\nThe nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow,\nWith milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down,\nEre yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;"
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"ref": "1914, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 19, in The Hidden Children, New York: Appleton, page 575:",
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"text": "1981, Martin Morolong, “The Old-Style Calendar” in Bessie Head, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind, London: Heinemann,\nThe birds perch on the sorghum heads and try to eat them but the dry seed falls to the ground. The birds can only peck it out of the sorghum head when it is still milky and green."
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{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "pieniškas"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "pieninis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "pieningas"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "In appearance",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "kauehu"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "melkeaktig"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "mleczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "leitoso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lăptos"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "molóčnyj",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "моло́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mléčnyj",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"tags": [
"dated",
"poetic"
],
"word": "мле́чный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lechoso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "mjölkig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "sütlü"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "moločnyj",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "молочний"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "llaethog"
}
],
"word": "milky"
}
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