genus hevea

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   small genus of South American trees yielding latex

   “rubber trees are usually cultivated in plantations”

   SynonymsHevearubber tree

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofEuphorbiaceae

Questions about genus hevea

What does genus hevea mean?

genus hevea means "small genus of South American trees yielding latex".

What is another word for genus hevea?

Close synonyms include Hevea, rubber tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus hevea a common word?

genus hevea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.