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Meanings of rubber plant in English

Portuguese
árvore-da-borracha

Large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber.

árvore-da-borracha
Synonyms
Examples for "India-rubber tree"
Examples for "India-rubber tree"
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It is difficult to see how mankind in the nineteenth century could exist without the India-rubber tree.
The Philistines
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Here we have also the india-rubber tree, the cork-tree, and several new plants.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
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They are covered with a most luxuriant forest, comprising a large number of india-rubber trees.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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The india-rubber tree belongs to the milk-weed family.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
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Fenton had decorated the rooms a little, chiefly with live pampas grass and palms and India-rubber trees.
The Philistines
1
But I felt extraordinarily like a traitor-tothe India-rubberplant, I suppose-forall that nothing had been said...
Tono-Bungay
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Rubber Plant ( Ficus elastica) Tests have shown that rubber plants are especially efficient at removing formaldehyde from the air.
Ebony
Usage of rubber plant in English
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A rubber plant may be layered or topped as it is called.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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A rubber plant likes to see a little sport now and then.
Waifs and Strays / Part 1
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The guy was a shift foreman at the rubber plant in Winston-Salem.
The king of lies
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He'd started stripping the rubber plant and he wanted to finish the job.
The blood spilt
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A rubber plant was finally found somewhere in New Jersey.
The new yorker
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The rubber plant looked as worn out as I felt.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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What the-well, wasn't that tough on a genuine little old New York rubber plant?
Waifs and Strays / Part 1
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Bushes which yield acid, suitable for coagulating the milk of the rubber plant, grow alongside.
A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State
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A dying rubber plant stood against the opposite wall.
Happiness key
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Now the stalk may be cut below these new roots and the new rubber plant potted.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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The tangled remains of a fallen rubber plant.
Something in the water
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Professor Collins: It was on the rubber plant.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...
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He sure is partic'lar 'bout dat rubber plant.
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's
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Both of them stand under a rubber plant!
Waifs and Strays / Part 1
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Nor did I neglect the rubber plant.
The ministry of pain
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What the shamrock is to Ireland the rubber plant is to the dweller in flats and furnished rooms.
Waifs and Strays / Part 1
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