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Definition of Rubber plant
1. Noun. Large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber.
Generic synonyms: Fig Tree
Definition of Rubber plant
1. Noun. (botany) ''Ficus elastica'', a tropical tree used as a houseplant native to Asia.''The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, 1998''Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them'', Könemann, 2004 ¹
2. Noun. (botany) A tree which can produce latex, a rubber tree, including ''Hevea brasiliensis''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubber Plant
Literary usage of Rubber plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The fig, the India rubber plant, the banyan tree and the creeping fig of conservatory
walls belong to this vast and natural genus, which has over 600 ..."
2. Rubber-content of North American Plants by Harvey Monroe Hall, Frances Louise Long (1921)
"Colorado rubber plant.—In 1902 and 1903 considerable interest was manifested in
a new rubber plant from Colorado and New Mexico, namely, ..."
3. Life in the forests of the Far East by Spenser St. John (1862)
"... or Indian-rubber Plant—Find Remains of Bees'-nest—The British Flag—Reach the
... rubber Plant ..."
4. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"THE TUBERCLE DISEASE OF THE rubber plant. On the under side of the leaves are
found numerous abundant, very small, gland or tubercle-like, ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1912)
"The rubber plant occurs normally only on the coarser soils of the ridges and is
seldom found on the finer soils of the lowlands. Lloyd suggests that this is ..."
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