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india rubber en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The latex obtained from certain trees of several families, especially Hevea brasiliensis, widely cultivated in Asia.
2. (countable, uncountable) The rubber made from this latex.
   • The latter is a bell-jar...having a wide neck, closed by an indiarubber cork. 1897 December, Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, “Condensation of water vapour in the presence of dust-free air and other gases”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, →DOI, page 268:
   • An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked. 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb:
3. (countable, dated, uncountable) An eraser made from this rubber.

Forms

Deriveds

india-rubber man

Relateds

rubber tree

Translations (1)

de Radiergummi (3. An eraser made from this rubber)