caoutchouc

• This substance, variously known as cachuchu, caoutchouc, gum elastic, and India-rubber, was first introduced into Europe in 1730, where it was regarded merely as a curiosity, useful for erasing pencil marks, but valueless for any practical use. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
• With regard to the Indian rubber tree, the doctor said that it was only one of many trees producing caoutchouc--the Ficus elastica_, I believe. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
• Order the sergeant to warn the men for four I walked through the camp in search of Blossom's marquee, which I found in a grove of caoutchouc-trees, and out of range of the heaviest metal in Vera Cruz. —  The Rifle Rangers
• Subordinate products for exports include cutch dye, caoutchouc or india-rubber, cotton, petroleum and jade. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• In a few days when the milk had coagulated, forming large patches of caoutchouc, they would return for it. —  In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians

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