Guayule
noun
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Noun
- 1 Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family.
"Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees."
- 2 much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber wordnet
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More examples"Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees."