gutta-percha tree

Questions about gutta-percha tree

What does gutta-percha tree mean?

gutta-percha tree means "one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for gutta-percha tree?

Close synonyms include Palaquium gutta. 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 gutta-percha tree a common word?

gutta-percha tree 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.