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galactoid (guh-LAK-toid) - adj., resembling milk, milky.
Another uncommon word I'll rarely use but am glad to know exists. The resemblance to galaxy is not coincidental, as that originally meant specifically the Milky Way, referring to the smear of stars across the sky, and only much later was it recognized that some of the nebulae in the sky are the same sort of structure as the one we're in the middle of. Coined around 1880 from Ancient Greek gála, milk.
---L.
Another uncommon word I'll rarely use but am glad to know exists. The resemblance to galaxy is not coincidental, as that originally meant specifically the Milky Way, referring to the smear of stars across the sky, and only much later was it recognized that some of the nebulae in the sky are the same sort of structure as the one we're in the middle of. Coined around 1880 from Ancient Greek gála, milk.
---L.
