caucho

[kou-choh, -shoo]

noun

1. rubber obtained from the latex of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Castilla, especially C. elastica, of Central America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of caucho¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Latin American Spanish, Spanish, variant of cauchuc caoutchouc ( def. )

Example Sentences

Las empresas comenzaron a fabricar látex, producto de los árboles de caucho plantados durante la época colonial británica, pero ahora trabajan más a menudo con materiales sintéticos.

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Immortalized in Werner Herzog’s 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo,” he was a man of limitless ambition who bloodily installed himself as Peru’s Rey del Caucho—the Rubber King.

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Dr. Hicks Bunting found, in an analysis of the drug, 60 per cent. of insoluble residue, wax, “caucho,” resin, tannin, sugar, albuminoids, oxalate of calcium and other salts.

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