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  • noun A person who extracts gum from wild or cultivated trees

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Examples

  • It comes with a pamphlet telling the story of Eduardo, a Guatemalan chiclero who "has found a good way of earning money without chopping down any trees."

    Green Gifts That Keep Giving 2010

  • It comes with a pamphlet telling the story of Eduardo, a Guatemalan chiclero who "has found a good way of earning money without chopping down any trees."

    Avital Binshtock: Green Gifts That Keep Giving 2010

  • It comes with a pamphlet telling the story of Eduardo, a Guatemalan chiclero who "has found a good way of earning money without chopping down any trees."

    Avital Binshtock: Green Gifts That Keep Giving 2009

  • Not long ago a chiclero said instead of sending Mayan artifacts out of the country, leave them alone where they are and bring the tourists in to see them.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The chiclero had squirmed out of his hastily tied bonds.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • “The chiclero killed himself,” he explained patiently.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The chiclero began to shout in rapid-fire Spanish despite the warnings of Morales to shut his mouth.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Trout would have liked to see if Ruiz had more information to offer, although from what the chiclero recounted he was at the bottom of the smuggling totem pole.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • A chiclero leaned out to push off and discovered Newton was right when he said every action had a reaction.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Behind him was the chiclero leader Gamay had named Pancho.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

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