natural rubber

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsrubberIndia rubbergum elasticcaoutchouc

   Broaderlatex

   Narrowerfoam rubbercrepe rubbercold rubberhard rubberPara rubber

Questions about natural rubber

What does natural rubber mean?

natural rubber 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 natural rubber?

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

natural 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.