<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A large, two-handled storage jar having an oval body, usually tapering to a point at the base, with a pair of handles extending from immediately below the lip to the shoulder; used chiefly for oil, wine, etc., and set on a foot as a commemorative vase awarded to victors in contests such as the Panathenaic games.</li><li>A milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.</li><li>Any emulsion in water of finely divided particles of synthetic rubber or plastic.</li></ul><p><strong>Plural</strong></p><ul><li>Latices, latexes.</li></ul>