Associations to the word «Laticifer»

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Wiktionary

LATICIFER, noun. (botany) a type of elongated secretory cell found in the leaves and/or stems of plants that produce latex and rubber as secondary metabolites.

Dictionary definition

LATICIFER, noun. A plant duct containing latex.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope