Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rubbery substance derived from the latex of any of several tropical trees chiefly of the genus Palaquium of Southeast Asia, used in dental devices and formerly as an electrical insulator and in golf balls.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, an exceedingly fine, laminated glacial clay.
- noun The concrete juice of an evergreen sapotaceous tree, Dichopsis (Isonandra) Gutta, common in the jungles of the Malay peninsula and archipelago.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the
Isonandra Gutta , syn.Dichopsis Gutta . It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. TheMimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
inelastic natural latex , produced from thesap of severaltropical trees of thegenera Palaquium and Payena.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Not gutta-percha, you understand, nor any cheap composition; but pure Para rubber of the best quality.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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"Featheries" -- balls made from stitched leather stuffed with feathers -- were replaced by a smoother play with gutta-percha balls.
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In the sale is a gutta-percha ball made by famed Scottish golfer Willie Park Jr. around 1896.
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As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks began beating Sumner on the head with his thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head.
Dan Manatt: South Carolinians Gone Wild: Wilson's Only the Latest ... 2009
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It is almost enough to make me wish that the ghost of "Bully" Brooks would possess House Minority Leader John Boehner, who would then grab a gutta-percha cane, and mistaking Senator Lieberman for Charles Sumner, beat him half to death on the Senate Floor.
Forcing Their Hand 2009
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Early gutta-percha gave way to the Balata cover that was developed in the early 1900?
Archive 2006-11-22 Tarsem 2006
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The pin is of gutta-percha, with a D of that beautiful shell set in it.
2006 Field Report 4 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison 2006
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Early gutta-percha gave way to the Balata cover that was developed in the early 1900?
The Size and Weight Of A Golf Ball Tarsem 2006
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Someone had pulled the gutta-percha tube across a bare part of the steam pipe and melted it.
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There was Thomson, there was my testing board, the strings of gutta-percha; Harry P — even, battering with the batteries; but where was my darling Annie?
yarb commented on the word gutta-percha
Citation on trepang.
October 17, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word gutta-percha
See also guttapercha, gutta percha.
October 17, 2008