Lexic.us

Definition of Latex

1. Noun. A milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air.

Definition of Latex

1. n. A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.

Definition of Latex

1. Noun. The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber. ¹

2. Noun. An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like. ¹

3. Noun. Natural latex rubber, ''especially'' non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Latex

1. a milky liquid of certain plants [n LATICES or LATEXES]

Medical Definition of Latex

1. A viscous fluid exuded from the cut surfaces of the leaves and stems of certain plants, such as the dandelion or the rubber tree. A rubber made from such plant sap. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latex

Literary usage of Latex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A small portion of a latex cell surrounded by other cells is shown in Fig. 2. FIG. 2. Not all of the latex carrying structures are formed in the way just ..."

2. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Figures 2 through 4 show representative latex accumulations in Peyer's patch domes. latex could also be seen near the serosal surface of Peyer's patches ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Caoutchouc occurs as small particles in latex, and coagulation begins with their running ... Some Isolated Observation bearing on the Function of latex. ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"latex of Euphorbia Lathyris-t—An elaborate examination of the latex of ... When in an inactive condition it passes over to the state of a primordial latex. ..."

5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"As a rule latex is white, as suggested by the common name of milky juice, ... latex elements are living, having thin plas- matic layers along the walls, ..."

6. Plantation Rubber and the Testing of Rubber by George Stafford Whitby (1920)
"He concludes that latex derived from the bark usually contains four kinds of ... He found that in the latex from some trees globules of the two latter kinds ..."

7. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1903)
"latex.—Many plants among which the rubber trees are prominent, have a milky juice technically called latex, whose use to the plant is still a matter for ..."

8. Practical Plant Physiology: An Introduction to Original Research for by Wilhelm Detmer, S. A. (Samuel Albert) Moor (1898)
"Many plants, as is known, contain latex. If wo cut a Euphorbia, for example, ... Clearly the contents of the latex reservoirs must stand at a not ..."

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