Meaning Of The Word Rubber plant

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What's The Definition Of Rubber plant?

rubber plant
countable noun: A rubber plant is a type of plant with shiny leaves. It grows naturally in Asia but is also grown as a house plant in other parts of the world.

rubber plant in American English
any plant yielding a milky sap (latex) from which crude rubber is formed
noun: a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant

rubber plant in British English
noun: 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

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