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

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

First recorded in 1885–90

She had been to the world beyond the Venetians, the white muslin curtains and the india-rubber plant, and she told me her report.

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.

Dat's his bestest rubber plant what he tol' me to take partic'lar care of.

Mun Bun was staring with all his eyes (and he had two very bright ones) at the rubber plant.

Bushes which yield acid, suitable for coagulating the milk of the rubber plant, grow alongside.

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