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单词 rubber plant
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rubber plant


noun

a 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 plant

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby rubber plant

rubberize, rubber jaw, rubber latex, rubberman disease, rubberneck, rubber plant, rubber room, rubber stamp, rubber tree, rubbery, Rubbia
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Example sentences from the Web for rubber plant

  • The third place on the list ought to be given to the ficus, more commonly known as rubber-plant.

    ABC of Gardening|Eben Eugene Rexford
  • And saw, there beside the wide Gate, a rubber-plant, its long leaves waving gently.

    The Poor Little Rich Girl|Eleanor Gates
  • Will, here are more poppies, and I promised Ada that I'd put that rubber-plant in her room to-night.

    Smith College Stories|Josephine Dodge Daskam

British Dictionary definitions for rubber plant

rubber plant

noun

a 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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