india rubber
See also: indiarubber and India rubber
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india rubber (countable and uncountable, plural india rubbers)
- The latex obtained from certain trees of several families, especially Hevea brasiliensis, widely cultivated in Asia.
- 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.
- (dated) An eraser made from this rubber.
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3. An eraser made from this rubber
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