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rubber plant
noun
- a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- any plant yielding caoutchouc or India rubber.
rubber plant
noun
- a moraceous plant, Ficus elastica , with glossy leathery leaves: a tall tree in India and Malaya, it is cultivated as a house plant in Europe and America
- any of several tropical trees, the sap of which yields rubber See also rubber tree
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rubber plant1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
She had been to the world beyond the Venetians, the white muslin curtains and the india-rubber plant, and she told me her report.
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I guess he thought he wasn't going to have any home at all when he saw you two in there with the rubber plant.
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Dat's his bestest rubber plant what he tol' me to take partic'lar care of.
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Mun Bun was staring with all his eyes (and he had two very bright ones) at the rubber plant.
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Bushes which yield acid, suitable for coagulating the milk of the rubber plant, grow alongside.
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