noun
small genus of South American trees yielding latex
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rubber trees are usually cultivated in plantations
• Syn: ↑Hevea, ↑rubber tree
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbiaceae, ↑family Euphorbiaceae, ↑spurge family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.