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Caoutchouc

noun

An 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. Synonyms: gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber, rubber.

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... ebony and lignum vitae cost at home, said it made his heart sore to burn wood so valuable. Though botanically different, they are extremely alike; the black wood as grown in some districts is superior, and the lignum vitae inferior in quality, to these timbers brought from other countries. Caoutchouc, or India-rubber, is found in abundance inland from Shupanga-house, and calumba-root is plentiful in the district; indigo, in quantities, propagates itself close to the banks of the Aver, and was probably at some ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

... a layer of such composition and one or more layers or strata of leather or caoutchouc, or both, such being for the formation of ...

— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... resumed the speaker, "that when the King of Gee-Whiz had chopped into the rubber tree with his little gold axe, drinking awfterwards a cupful of pure caoutchouc, it did not take him long to repent of his inadvertence. The results were what I may call most extraordinary. I should judge the rubber juice to have been ...

— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

Words linked to "Caoutchouc" : cold rubber, crepe rubber, ebonite, foam rubber, hard rubber, vulcanite, Para rubber, latex