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Gutta-percha

//ɡʌɾəˈpɝtʃə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena. countable, uncountable

    "Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state ."

  2. 2
    a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay getah perca.

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