india rubber

See also: indiarubber and India rubber

English

Alternative forms

• India rubber

Noun

india rubber

1. The latex obtained from certain trees of several families, especially Hevea brasiliensis, widely cultivated in Asia.
2. 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.

3. An eraser made from this rubber.

See also

• rubber tree