Meanings
india rubber1
plural india rubbers · alternative indiarubber · alternative india-rubber · alternative India rubber
- countableuncountableThe latex obtained from certain trees of several families, especially Hevea brasiliensis, widely cultivated in Asia.
- countableuncountableThe 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 2681 more example
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 - countabledateduncountableAn eraser made from this rubber.
India rubber2
plural India rubbers
- countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of india rubber.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
German Radiergummi
- Radiergummi3. An eraser made from this rubber
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