guayule

[ gwah-yoo-lee, wah-; Spanish gwah-yoo-le ]

/ gwɑˈyu li, wɑ-; Spanish gwɑˈyu lɛ /

a composite shrub, Parthenium argentatum, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, yielding a form of rubber.

the rubber obtained from this plant.

Origin of guayule

1905–10, Americanism; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl cuauholli or huauholli, equivalent to cuahu(itl) tree or huauh(tli) amaranth + olli rubber

Then we watch the guayule being pitched by hand into crates and tightly jammed therein by being jumped on by the packers.

Rubber |Edith A. Browne
The guayule shrub is now a further source of Mexican rubber.

Mexico |Charles Reginald Enock
The only native source so far utilized is the guayule, which grows wild on the deserts of the Mexican and the American border.

Creative Chemistry |Edwin E. Slosson
Subdominants are mariola, guayule, Agave lechugilla, A. stricta or Larrea divaricata.

The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico |Ticul Alvarez

In the district we have come to visit, several Mexicans are busy gathering in a harvest of guayule.

Rubber |Edith A. Browne

guayule

/ (ɡwəˈjuːlɪ) /

a bushy shrub, Parthenium argentatum, of the southwestern US: family Asteraceae (composites)

rubber derived from the sap of this plant

from American Spanish, from Nahuatl cuauhuli, from cuahuitl tree + uli gum