CAOUTCHOUC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caoutchouc mean? 

• CAOUTCHOUC (noun)
  The noun CAOUTCHOUC has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CAOUTCHOUC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAOUTCHOUC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

caoutchouc; gum elastic; India rubber; natural rubber; rubber

Hypernyms ("caoutchouc" is a kind of...):

latex (a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caoutchouc"):

foam rubber (spongy rubber; made by introducing air bubbles before vulcanization and used for cushioning or upholstery)

crepe rubber (crude natural rubber; used mainly for shoe soles)

cold rubber (a rubber made at low temperatures (5 degrees Centigrade) which is tougher than conventional rubber and is often used in car tires)

ebonite; hard rubber; vulcanite (a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber)

Para rubber (a type of natural rubber obtained from tropical South American trees)

 Context examples 

An unsaturated pentahydrocarbon, Isoprene is found in certain plants or obtained by distillation of caoutchouc or gutta-percha.

(Isoprene, NCI Thesaurus)