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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.
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Origin of rubber tree

First recorded in 1840–50
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Historical Examples of rubber tree

  • It also includes the most useful teak as well as the rubber-tree and the cinchona.

    Commercial Geography

    Jacques W. Redway

  • Thus far we had not seen a rubber-tree, vanilla-vine, coffee-tree, or anything else that we would accept as a gift.

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

    Lord Dolphin

    Harriet A. Cheever

  • Le Brunnec was convinced that the eva, which we had found in considerable numbers, was a rubber-tree.

British Dictionary definitions for rubber tree

rubber tree

noun
  1. 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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