Usage examples (38)

• This is a figure again taken from that biochemistry textbook by Voet and Voet discussing a system called the lac operon.
• The Rajah of Benares receives from the English government an annual pension of one lac, that is, 100,000 rupees (10,000 pounds).
• The females never escape and after impregnation their ovaries become filled with a red fluid which forms a valuable dye known as lac dye.
• In fact, there is no lactose in any of the "lac" additives found in ingredients lists.