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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.
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 rubber See also Pará rubber
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rubber tree1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
Could you pull the rubber tree out as high as the stars, and would it snap back again?
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Awnings of cloth, cunningly treated with the juice from the bark of the wild rubber tree, protected them from the rain.
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And my hands are made of the rubber tree so I can wiggle my fingers easily and turn the keys to wind the machinery.
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The rubber tree grows below, and a climate for barley is found in a few days journey towards the sky.
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Here are leaves shooting out like rafts, thick, like the leaves of a rubber-tree, but larger and of a deep red.
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