rubber tree
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.
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How to use rubber tree in a sentence
Could you pull the rubber tree out as high as the stars, and would it snap back again?
Fil and Filippa | John Stuart ThomsonAwnings 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. SnellAnd my hands are made of the rubber tree so I can wiggle my fingers easily and turn the keys to wind the machinery.
Dot and Tot of Merryland | L. Frank BaumThe rubber tree grows below, and a climate for barley is found in a few days journey towards the sky.
The Sea and the Jungle | H. M. TomlinsonHere are leaves shooting out like rafts, thick, like the leaves of a rubber-tree, but larger and of a deep red.
Lord Dolphin | Harriet A. Cheever
British Dictionary definitions for rubber tree
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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