rubber tree

noun

any tree that yields latex from which rubber is produced, especially Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, native to South America, the chief commercial source of rubber.

Origin of rubber tree

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby rubber tree

rubber latex, rubber match, rubber plant, rubber room, rubber stamp, rubber tree, rubber-base paint, rubber-bulb syringe, rubber-chicken circuit, rubber-faced, rubber-stamp

Example sentences from the Web for rubber tree

  • It also includes the most useful teak as well as the rubber-tree and the cinchona.

    Commercial Geography |Jacques W. Redway

  • Thus far we had not seen a rubber-tree, vanilla-vine, coffee-tree, or anything else that we would accept as a gift.

    A Journey in Southeastern Mexico |Henry Howard Harper

  • Le Brunnec was convinced that the eva, which we had found in considerable numbers, was a rubber-tree.

    White Shadows in the South Seas |Frederick O'Brien

  • Here are leaves shooting out like rafts, thick, like the leaves of a rubber-tree, but larger and of a deep red.

    Lord Dolphin |Harriet A. Cheever

British Dictionary definitions for rubber tree

rubber tree

noun

a tropical American euphorbiaceous tree, Hevea brasiliensis, cultivated throughout the tropics, esp in Malaya, for the latex of its stem, which is the major source of commercial rubber See also Pará rubber