RUBBER PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rubber plant mean? 

• RUBBER PLANT (noun)
  The noun RUBBER PLANT has 1 sense:

1. large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber

  Familiarity information: RUBBER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBBER PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Assam rubber; Ficus elastica; India-rubber fig; India-rubber plant; India-rubber tree; rubber plant

Hypernyms ("rubber plant" is a kind of...):

fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)

 Context examples 

The natural extract of tropical rubber plants.

(Natural Rubber, NCI Thesaurus)