| rubber plant n. 1. Any of several tropical plants yielding sap that can be coagulated to form crude rubber. 2. A small tree (Ficus elastica) that has large, oblong, glossy, leathery leaves and is a popular house plant. |   Ficus elastica |
rubber plant
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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a moraceous plant, Ficus elastica, with glossy leathery leaves: a tall tree in India and Malaya, it is cultivated as a house plant in Europe and America
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several tropical trees, the sap of which yields rubber See also rubber tree
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| Noun | 1. |  rubber plant - large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubberfig tree - any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature |
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