rubber plant


noun
  1. a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.

  2. any plant yielding caoutchouc or India rubber.

Origin of rubber plant

1
First recorded in 1885–90

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rubber plant

noun
  1. a moraceous plant, Ficus elastica, with glossy leathery leaves: a tall tree in India and Malaya, it is cultivated as a house plant in Europe and America

  2. any of several tropical trees, the sap of which yields rubber: See also rubber tree

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