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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

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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

The only bad mess was the wild rubber program in the Amazon Valley, where Americans did not take proper advantage of native experience.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rubber industry is extensive and thousands of the wild rubber trees are located and tapped.

From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot