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hevea Bot.|ˈhiːviːə|
[mod.L., f. native name hevé (F. Aublet, Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise (1775) II. 871).]
A South American tree of the genus so called, belonging to the family Euphorbiaceæ, and having milky sap which provides rubber.
1878W. T. Thiselton-Dyer Let. 17 Apr. in Indian Forester (1879) IV. 42 The climate of Calcutta did not prove very favorable to the Heveas, which require the conditions of growth met with in hot and moist tropical forests. 1899Hooker's Icones Plantarum XXVI. 2575 The seeds of Hevea are..incorrectly described. 1909J. C. Willis Agric. in Tropics xiii. 129 Hevea certainly forms 95% of all cultivated rubber. 1927Daily Tel. 11 May 3/4 The rest would be dug up after the present season, and rubber planted in its stead, as the hevea trees remaining were widely spaced. 1935Nature 16 Mar. 417/1 The exudation..is known as hevea-latex, since Hevea brasiliensis is only one of some four hundred plant species which elaborate juices containing rubber. 1964J. Hutchinson Ess. Crop Plant Evol. viii. 167 Such an evolutionary phenomenon as Hevea rubber, of which some individuals of the original domestication are said to be still alive. |