Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing or containing latex.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, bearing or containing latex.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
Etymologies
- Latin latex, laticis, a liquid + -ferous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On account of these movements in the latex, the laticiferous vessels have been denominated cinenchymatous.”
“Mesophloeum, and Epiphloeum!) with 'laticiferous vessels.”
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lacis, laches, labret, labile, lability, labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, lux, luff, lour, limn and 496 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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