gutta-percha

1. 1.

   a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables

   Broadergum

Questions about gutta-percha

What does gutta-percha mean?

gutta-percha means "a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables".

How many syllables are in gutta-percha?

gutta-percha has 4 syllables and divides as gut-ta--per-cha under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is gutta-percha a common word?

gutta-percha 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.