hard rubber

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   a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber

   Synonymsvulcaniteebonite

   Broaderrubber

Questions about hard rubber

What does hard rubber mean?

hard rubber means "a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber".

What is another word for hard rubber?

Close synonyms include vulcanite, ebonite. 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 hard rubber a common word?

hard rubber 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.