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caoutchouc
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun caoutchouc has 1 sense
- caoutchouc(n = noun.substance) gum elastic, india rubber, natural rubber, rubber - an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products; Array has particulars: foam rubber, crepe rubber, cold rubber, ebonite, hard rubber, vulcanite, para rubber
is a kind of latex
CIDE DICTIONARY
caoutchouc, n. [F. caoutchouc, from the South American name.].
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc ), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic . See Vulcanization. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
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Elasticity
N elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.
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