wild rubber
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Kopp and Morillion chose to manufacture in Brazil because there was a good supply of wild rubber, organic cotton and factories where 80 percent of workers are unionised and pay is above minimum wage.
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2017
It was a land of subsistence farms and wild rubber extraction, plus “colonial plantations” producing cocoa, coffee and sugar.
From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2017
Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you will trace this belt on a map of the world you will see that it includes the Amazon region which produces more than three-quarters of the wild rubber used in manufacturing.
From The Romance of Rubber by Martin, John
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