OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18648

gutta-percha

/ɡʌɾəˈpɝtʃə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gutapercha
An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.
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…
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