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Definition of Gutta balata
1. Noun. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
Substance meronyms: Balata, Balata Tree, Beefwood, Bully Tree, Manilkara Bidentata
Generic synonyms: Gum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gutta Balata
Literary usage of Gutta balata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Employment Opportunities for Handicapped Men in the Coppersmithing Trade by Bert Jasper Morris (1918)
"Among thi beltings are gutta balata belts, which are made a folded in a manner
similar to that used in the making a folding of the canvas interior of rubber ..."
2. Rubber by Philip Schidrowitz (1911)
"... of gutta, balata, Jelutong, etc., but inclusive of Guayule), and during the
year 1910 the United Kingdom took some 43000 tons. ..."
3. First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute by James Rufus Boosé (1901)
"Bibliography of Gold. By Prof. A. Liversidge. Pamp. 160. Sydney, 1895 LECOMTE.
La gutta balata. Par Henri Lecomte. Soc. d'Etudes Col. 1895 MACFIE. ..."
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