rubber tree

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noun

any tree that yields latex from which rubber is produced, especially Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, native to South America, the chief commercial source of rubber.

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Origin of rubber tree

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby rubber tree

rubberman disease, rubberneck, rubber plant, rubber room, rubber stamp, rubber tree, rubbery, Rubbia, rubbing, rubbing alcohol, rubbish

How to use rubber tree in a sentence

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Each tiny tree was a plume of leaves; the rows stretched out to the hilltop, and over.
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Wide and straight, well made and tree-lined throughout, it supplied the two great arteries of Indian life.
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I saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
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It was supposed by many on its discovery to grow like the engraving given—in form resembling a tree or shrub rather than an herb.
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British Dictionary definitions for rubber tree

rubber tree

noun

a tropical American euphorbiaceous tree, Hevea brasiliensis, cultivated throughout the tropics, esp in Malaya, for the latex of its stem, which is the major source of commercial rubberSee also Pará rubber

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