rubber plant

rubber plantFicus elastica

rubber plant

n.1. Any of several tropical plants yielding sap that can be coagulated to form crude rubber.2. A small tree (Ficus elastica) that has large, oblong, glossy, leathery leaves and is a popular houseplant.

rubber plant

n 1. (Plants) a moraceous plant, Ficus elastica, with glossy leathery leaves: a tall tree in India and Malaya, it is cultivated as a house plant in Europe and America 2. (Plants) any of several tropical trees, the sap of which yields rubber. See also rubber tree

rub′ber plant`

n. 1. an Asian tree, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shiny, leathery leaves, used as a source of rubber and cultivated as a houseplant. 2. any plant yielding rubber.

Thesaurus

Noun

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rubber plant - large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubberAssam rubber, Ficus elastica, India-rubber fig, India-rubber plant, India-rubber treefig tree - any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature

Translations

albero della gommaficus