- Formerly unknown rubbery material - Milky juice of rubber trees - Milky plant exudation - Overdue kiss for some sap - Plant exudation - Product of the rubber tree - Rubber component
- A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the
milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the
euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and
Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected
by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when
vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also
called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was
formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See
Vulcanization.
- About to succumb to temptation, by gum! - Amber substance - Are singers holding varnish ingredient? - Conifer exudation - Conifer secretion - Erin’s chewed-up gum - Fir exudation
- A tree sap - Poison sap - Tree sap - A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common
in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are
poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere
about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas. - A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for
poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree
(Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant
(Strychnos Tieute).