wild rubber


noun
  1. rubber obtained from trees growing wild.

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How to use wild rubber in a sentence

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

    The Red Lure | Roy J. Snell
  • In the yet uncolonised north of this vast territory wild rubber of high commercial value covers large tracts of country.

  • They pay little for their produce, wild rubber, chicle, wild coffee.

    Sign of the Green Arrow | Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
  • In the Congo there is still wild rubber and a movement is under way to develop large plantations.

    An African Adventure | Isaac F. Marcosson
  • There had been a trader named Ogilvie in this part of the world, a mild, uncleanly man who sold cloth and bought wild rubber.

    Sanders of the River | Edgar Wallace

British Dictionary definitions for wild rubber

wild rubber

noun
  1. rubber obtained from uncultivated rubber trees

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