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
They are very special rubber trees, with trunks of one variety grafted on wild rubber roots, and boughs of still another variety grafted on the trunks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon.
From Time Magazine Archive
How different is life on the rubber plantations of to-day from the life of the gatherer of wild rubber in the jungle.
From The Romance of Rubber by Martin, John
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