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rubber tree

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
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Example sentences from the Web for 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.

    A Journey in Southeastern Mexico|Henry Howard Harper

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

    White Shadows in the South Seas|Frederick O'Brien

  • 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

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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