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  1. n. 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.”

    The Huffington Post: Green Gifts That Keep Giving

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

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

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

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

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

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

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

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

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

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: SERPENT

  • “It is, in fact, a destructive and sometimes violent business, as attested by the recent assassination in Carmelita of Carlos Catalán, a local chiclero who had become a staunch opponent of looting in the Petén.”

    Plundering the Petén

  • “More than five hours later, we made camp, and the next morning walked for three hours to a chiclero campsite called Lo Veremos.”

    Mission to La Corona

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