Meaning of gutta-percha | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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 .”

“No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.”

CEFR level