单词 | rubber vine |
释义 | > as lemmasrubber vine rubber vine n. any of several vines which yield rubber; spec. the woody African vine Cryptostegia grandiflora (family Asclepiadaceae), widely cultivated in the tropics and a serious weed in northern Australia; cf. India rubber vine at India rubber n. Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1875 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 19 81 Ground-nuts..are produced here [sc. Quiballa, Angola] in abundance; the rubber vine also grows plentifully. 1916 E. V. Wilcox Trop. Agric. xiii. 201 Rubber vines include species of Landolphia, Clitandra, and Cryptostegia. 2003 New Scientist 12 July 44/4 More insidious damage is being done to both farmland and bush country by weeds like buffel grass or rubber vine and by plant diseases such as cinnamon fungus. rubber vine rubber vine n. see rubber n.1 Compounds 3. < as lemmas |
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