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Rubber Plant

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Noun

1. assam rubber, ficus elastica, india-rubber fig, india-rubber plant, india-rubber tree, rubber plant

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rubber Plant

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noun
1. 
a moraceous plant, Ficus elastica, with glossy leathery leaves: a tall tree in India and Malaya, it is cultivated as a house plant in Europe and America
2. 
any of several tropical trees, the sap of which yields rubber
See also rubber tree

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Rubber Plant

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1. 
any plant yielding a milky sap (latex) from which crude rubber is formed
2. 
an Asian tree (Ficus elastica) of the mulberry family, with large, glossy, leathery leaves: often used as an ornamental house plant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rubber Plant

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n.
1. Any of several tropical plants yielding sap that can be coagulated to form crude rubber.
2. A small tree (Ficus elastica) that has large, oblong, glossy, leathery leaves and is a popular houseplant.

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