Meanings
plural guayules
- Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family.
Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees.
2015 August 18, Diane Cardwell, “Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmuch-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
guayule. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guayule
“guayule.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guayule. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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