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Pará rubber

–noun
India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.

Origin:
1895–1900; named after Pará
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Pa·rá rubber   (pä-rä', pār'ə)   
n.  Rubber obtained from various tropical South American trees of the genus Hevea, especially H. brasiliensis.

[After Pará, a state of northern Brazil.]
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