indiarubber

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A form of india rubber — The latex obtained from certain trees of several families, especially Hevea brasiliensis, widely cultivated in Asia.

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Meanings

nounindiarubber (countable and uncountable, plural indiarubbers)

plural indiarubbers

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of india rubber.

    The eyebrows were of worsted and indiarubber knitted together.

    1898, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
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    It cannot harm you, if you take, as beetle-hunters do, an indiarubber sheet to lie on; and it will certainly benefit science.

    a. 1875, Charles Kingsley, Scientific Essays and Lectures

    I tried exercises with an indiarubber expander; but I wasnt strong enough: instead of my expanding it, it crumpled me up.

    1910, George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance
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