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–noun
1. 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.
2. any plant yielding caoutchouc or India rubber.
Origin:
1885–90
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n.  

  1. Any of several tropical plants yielding sap that can be coagulated to form crude rubber.

  2. A small tree (Ficus elastica) that has large, oblong, glossy, leathery leaves and is a popular house plant.

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