India rubber
/ɪndiə ˈrʌbə
/noun [mass noun]
Natural rubber.The ball the schoolboys originally swatted was a globe of vulcanized India rubber pierced with a hole....
- Five hundred pairs of India rubber boots were imported to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1823.
- Although latex was tapped from trees in parts of Assam, all the rubber from the East Indies got to be called India rubber.