Gutta-percha
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɡʌɾəˈpɝtʃə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gutta-percha is a noun meaning An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
Meaning
An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
Example Sentences
No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.
They wandered together along the shore with a couple of old "cleeks" brought from England and some wretched gutta-percha golf balls, to be driven on their last afternoon gloriously into the sea.
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 .
Word Forms
- gutta-perchas
- guttapercha
- guttah
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include guttapercha, pontianac, gomuti, balata, copal, caucho.
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