单词 | rubber plant |
释义 | rubber plantnouna plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant. any plant yielding caoutchouc or India rubber. Origin of rubber plantFirst recorded in 1885–90 Words nearby rubber plantrubberize, rubber jaw, rubber latex, rubberman disease, rubberneck, rubber plant, rubber room, rubber stamp, rubber tree, rubbery, Rubbia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rubber plant
British Dictionary definitions for rubber plantrubber plant nouna moraceous plant, Ficus elastica, with glossy leathery leaves: a tall tree in India and Malaya, it is cultivated as a house plant in Europe and America any of several tropical trees, the sap of which yields rubberSee also rubber tree Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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