Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
india-rubber vine (which see, underindia-rubber ).
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Examples
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Two varieties of the valuable rubber-vine, _Landolphia florida_ and _Landolphia
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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My men, who were naked save for a cotton sarong wound around their waists, slashed here a rubber-vine, there a thorny rattan, and again
Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882
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We had sent a runner ahead to notify the punghulo of our arrival, and as we finished our struggle with the last thorny rattan, and tripped over the last rubber-vine, we could hear the shouting of men and the barking of dogs.
Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882
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The monotonous fringe of rhizophores is broken, about two miles from the mouth, by bamboo-palms and hibiscus-beds, then by the bombax, the rubber-vine, the locust-tree (_inga_), and the banana-plantation.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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