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guayule

[ gwah-yoo-lee, wah-; Spanish gwah-yoo-le ]

noun

, plural gua·yu·les [gwah-, yoo, -leez, wah-, gwah-, yoo, -les].
  1. a composite shrub, Parthenium argentatum, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, yielding a form of rubber.
  2. the rubber obtained from this plant.


guayule

/ ɡwəˈjuːlɪ /

noun

  1. a bushy shrub, Parthenium argentatum, of the southwestern US: family Asteraceae (composites)
  2. rubber derived from the sap of this plant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guayule1

1905–10, Americanism; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl cuauholli or huauholli, equivalent to cuahu ( itl ) tree or huauh ( tli ) amaranth + olli rubber
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guayule1

from American Spanish, from Nahuatl cuauhuli, from cuahuitl tree + uli gum
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Example Sentences

In Arizona, too, guayule thrives amidst drought, its blue-green leaves set apart from dry dirt at a research and development farm operated by the tire company Bridgestone.

The TK dandelion work was published recently in Industrial Crops and Products, and the guayule research in Environmental Technology & Innovation.

That made it possible for Firestone to provide tires with rubber derived from the guayule desert shrub at all five street circuits of the 17-race IndyCar season.

The tire manufacturer Bridgestone has operated a demonstration-scale processing facility in central Arizona for the past decade in an effort to show that guayule can eventually be harvested for natural rubber at a commercial scale.

The tire is partially composed of a new sustainable natural rubber derived from the guayule shrub, which requires less re-harvesting than traditional sources of rubber.

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