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/ɡʌɾəˈpɝtʃə/ · noun
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 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 .
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.
Use gutta-percha when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gutta-percha means An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena..
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No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.
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