rubber tree

noun

1. 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.

rubber tree

noun

1. See Pará rubber
   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 rubber See also Pará rubber

Word History and Origins

Origin of rubber tree¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Could you pull the rubber tree out as high as the stars, and would it snap back again?

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Awnings of cloth, cunningly treated with the juice from the bark of the wild rubber tree, protected them from the rain.

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And my hands are made of the rubber tree so I can wiggle my fingers easily and turn the keys to wind the machinery.

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The rubber tree grows below, and a climate for barley is found in a few days journey towards the sky.

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Here are leaves shooting out like rafts, thick, like the leaves of a rubber-tree, but larger and of a deep red.

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