Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or containing latex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing or containing latex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
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- adjective botany Containing
latex ; applied to thetissue ortubular vessels in which the latex of theplant is found.
Etymologies
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Latin latex, laticis, a liquid + -ferous.
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Examples
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"On account of these movements in the latex, the laticiferous vessels have been denominated cinenchymatous."
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Mesophloeum, and Epiphloeum!) with 'laticiferous vessels.'
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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