gum elastic

Questions about gum elastic

What does gum elastic mean?

gum elastic means "an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products".

What is another word for gum elastic?

Close synonyms include rubber, natural rubber, India rubber, caoutchouc. 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 gum elastic a common word?

gum elastic 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.