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Definition of India rubber
1. 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.
Specialized synonyms: Foam Rubber, Crepe Rubber, Cold Rubber, Ebonite, Hard Rubber, Vulcanite, Para Rubber
Generic synonyms: Latex
Derivative terms: Rubber, Rubberize, Rubbery
Definition of India rubber
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of india rubber) ¹
2. Noun. The latex obtained from certain trees, especially those of the genera ''Hevea'' and ''Ficus'' ¹
3. Noun. The rubber made from this latex ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of India Rubber
Literary usage of India rubber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"It is, however, during the last forty years that India-rubber has enjoyed its
... Nothing more appears to have been heard of India-rubber until Torquemada, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"Considering the wide use now made of india-rubber, it seems curious that ...
In 1885 I made some measures of the value of Young's modulus for india-rubber, ..."
3. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"THE CANADIAN FOWL AND THE INDIA-RUBBER-TREE. TT^RITZ and I started next morning
with the ass to -*- bring home the sledge and the remainder of the gourd- ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1860)
"The Edinburgh Journal say; :— New applications of India rubber to mechanical ...
By substituting India rubber cloth for canvas, one set of rope or halyards ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"In the course of my travels as botanist in South America, I had occasion to
examine the different trees which produce the india-rubber, and of which the ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"India rubber to slip and work out of the gusset ia much reduced. When gussets
made in this manner are worked into boots or other articles the stitches by ..."
7. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"THE use of Caoutchouc, or India rubber, and its application to the ... The history
of the gradual steps by which the qualities of India rubber became better ..."
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