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 tough, adhesive mixture of caoutchouc, oil, and turpentine turned out well.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph
We were a semi-scientific group, looking for orchids and caoutchouc and various other things which could be transported down the Amazon and turned into good dollars at any port on the Atlantic coast.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
It would not have been strange if he had arrived that same night from Madagascar or Java, after enriching himself in a caoutchouc expedition.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
It is therefore isomeric with the hydrocarbon of caoutchouc and with that of oil of turpentine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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