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wild rubber

American  

noun

  1. rubber obtained from trees growing wild.


wild rubber British  

noun

  1. rubber obtained from uncultivated rubber trees

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Apparently the only hope for Brazil's war-built wild rubber industry is some sort of quota agreement with the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Now continue the belt across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, where you will strike the Belgian Congo which produces a small quantity of wild rubber.

From The Romance of Rubber by Martin, John

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