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GUTTA-PERCHA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gutta-percha mean?
• GUTTA-PERCHA (noun)
The noun GUTTA-PERCHA has 1 sense:
1. a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables
Familiarity information: GUTTA-PERCHA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("gutta-percha" is a kind of...):
gum (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)
Context examples
An unsaturated pentahydrocarbon, Isoprene is found in certain plants or obtained by distillation of caoutchouc or gutta-percha.
(Isoprene, NCI Thesaurus)
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