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laticiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lati-cif-er-ous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.

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Etymology

From Latin latex, laticis (“a liquid”) + -ferous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does laticiferous mean?
Containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
Where does laticiferous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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