rubber tree

English

Noun

rubber tree (plural rubber trees)

1. A tropical South American tree of species Hevea brasiliensis, the principal source of natural rubber.
2. A tropical fig with broad, glossy leaves, formerly used to produce natural rubber, often grown as a house plant (Ficus elastica)

Hypernyms

• tree

Hyponyms

• Para rubber tree

Translations

Hevea brasiliensis

Catalan: hevea f Chinese: Mandarin: 橡膠樹 / 橡胶树 (zh) (xiàngjiāoshù) Czech: kaučukovník (cs) m Finnish: kumipuu (fi) French: hévéa (fr) m German: Kautschukbaum m Hindi: रबड़ (hi) m (rabaṛ) Italian: albero della gomma m Korean: 파라고무나무 (ko) (paragomunamu) Polish: kauczukowiec (pl) m Portuguese: seringueira (pt) f Romanian: hevea (ro) f, arbore-de-cauciuc (ro) m Russian: геве́я (ru) f (gevéja) Slovak: kaučukovník m Spanish: árbol del caucho m, hevea (es) f Turkish: kauçuk ağacı (tr) Welsh: coeden rwber f

See also

• gum tree

References

• rubber tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia