noun
Etymology
Origin of caoutchouc
1765–75; < French < Spanish cauchuc (now obsolete), probably ultimately < an Indian language of lowland tropical South America
Example Sentences
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In the 1700s, a French explorer brought the name "caoutchouc" from a local language: it meant "weeping wood".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2019
The caoutchouc is collected in the simplest way, which affords a regular business to many Amazonians, chiefly native Indians, who dispose of it to the Portuguese or Brazilian traders.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
In most members of the genera the milky juice contains caoutchouc.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
It was like a double waistcoat, made of linen prepared with a solution of india rubber, the seams being likewise coated with caoutchouc, and the whole rendered perfectly air-tight.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Jean Rudolph Wyss
It is also formed in the destructive distillation of many substances, as wood, coal, caoutchouc, bones, resin and the fixed oils.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
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