Associations to the word «Latex»

Wiktionary

LATEX, noun. (medicine) (archaic) (rare) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
LATEX, noun. The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
LATEX, noun. An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
LATEX, noun. (uncountable) Natural latex rubber, especially non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.

Dictionary definition

LATEX, noun. A milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air.
LATEX, noun. A water-base paint that has a latex binder.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats