RUBBER TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rubber tree mean? 

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

1. small genus of South American trees yielding latex

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBBER TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of South American trees yielding latex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hevea; Hevea; rubber tree

Context example:

rubber trees are usually cultivated in plantations

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Holonyms ("rubber tree" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

 Context examples 

Natural latex is an extract of the rubber tree (H. brasiliensis) and contains the allergens responsible for latex hyper-sensitivity reactions.

(Natural Rubber, Food and Drug Administration)

Latex is a milky fluid that comes from the tropical rubber tree.

(Latex Allergy, NIH)

In this great district the wild rubber tree flourishes, and has become, as in the Congo, a curse to the natives which can only be compared to their forced labor under the Spaniards upon the old silver mines of Darien.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)