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Meanings of milky juice in English

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Usage of milky juice in English
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The milky juice of the Osage orange is used as a wart-cure.
Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng...
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The milky juice is employed for the treatment of inflammation and rheumatism.
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When bruised the pod exudes a white, milky juice.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
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The poison more generally employed is the milky juice of the tree Euphorbia ('E.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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The milky juice of the Cactus mamillaris is equally sweet.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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The milky juice of the creeper is gathered and treated in much the same way as the gutta.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
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Few facts are more firmly established than that the milky juice softens-inother words hastens the decomposition of-flesh
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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After a while it is pounded and rubbed until all the milky juice is squeezed out of it.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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When a cut is made in the poppy head, a tiny tear of milky juice exudes, and hardens.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
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A milky juice formed in digestion.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
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It produces a milky juice, with which the people dye the palms of their hands, instead of with henna.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...
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A milky juice came out.
Three Soldiers
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Its stem and leaves yield, when wounded, an acrid milky juice which is popularly applied for destroying warts, and corns.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Such delicious, milky juice!
The Tale of Fatty Coon
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Those are manchineel apples; with their milky juice the old Caribs were wont to poison the barbs of their parrot-feathered arrows.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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The peculiar properties of the milky juice which exudes from every part of the plant were noticed two hundred years ago.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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