Tissue vs Laticiferous - What's the difference?
tissue | laticiferous |
Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
* Dryden
* Milton
A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
Absorbent paper as material.
(biology) A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
* 1924 , ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 10.
Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
* A. J. Balfour
To form tissue of; to interweave.
(botany) Containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
(Webster 1913)
As a noun tissue
is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.As a verb tissue
is to form tissue of; to interweave.As an adjective laticiferous is
(botany) containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.tissue
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue . […].}}
- a robe of tissue , stiff with golden wire
- In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.
- But it is similarly necessary that flesh and each of the other tissues should be the ratio of its elements, or that not one of them should;
- a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
- unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
Verb
(tissu)- Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.