a. Bot. [f. L. latic-, LATEX + -(I)FEROUS. Cf. F. laticifère.] Bearing or containing latex. Laticiferous tissue, tissue containing laticiferous tubes or vessels.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 392. A portion of cinenchyma, or laticiferous tissue.
1861. H. Macmillan, Footn. Page Nat., 257. Like the milk in the laticiferous vessels of … lettuce.
1884. Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 432. The laticiferous tubes … traverse the entire body of the plant as a continuous system.
