india rubber

See also: indiarubber and India rubber

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india rubber (countable and uncountable, plural india rubbers)

  1. The latex obtained from certain trees of several families, especially Hevea brasiliensis, widely cultivated in Asia.
  2. The rubber made from this latex.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb‎[1]:
      An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.
    • 1897 December, Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, “Condensation of water vapour in the presence of dust-free air and other gases”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London‎[2], →DOI, page 268:
      The latter is a bell-jar...having a wide neck, closed by an indiarubber cork.
  3. (dated) An eraser made from this rubber.

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