Lactate
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To lactate is to secrete or produce milk. The vast majority of female mammals lactate after pregnancy to feed their young.
Lactate may also mean a salt or ester of lactic acid; in this context it's used in the lactate dehydrogenase, a human, animal and vegetal enzyme.