Para rubber
- noun
- /ˈpærə ˈrʌbər/
- Specialized
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caucho Pará
- Harvesting Para rubber requires carefully tapping the trees to collect the latex.
Examples
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The company sources Para rubber for use in the production of tires.
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Early waterproof clothing often relied on Para rubber as the main material.
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The Para rubber industry supports many local economies.
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Many tires are made from Para rubber.
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The company sources Para rubber for use in the production of tires.
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Harvesting Para rubber requires carefully tapping the trees to collect the latex.
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Early waterproof clothing often relied on Para rubber as the main material.
Synonyms
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2.9
An elastic material made from the sticky sap of certain trees used for many products
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5.0
A natural material from tree sap that stretches and is used to make tires and erasers
A natural stretchy material from tree sap used to make rubber things like tires or tubing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Para + rubber
The phrase denotes rubber from Pará (a geographic place) and is compositionally built from the place-name 'Para' + the noun 'rubber', so the meaning is directly inferable as 'rubber produced in Pará'. Place-name + material/item constructions are cross-linguistically common, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it (though the specific place-name may be unfamiliar).
Etymology
The name Para rubber may come from the Brazilian state called 'Pará', where workers collected the sticky sap that makes natural rubber. The word Para named the place and rubber named the material, so sellers often wrote that label on exported bundles. Because of that label, Para rubber came to mean the natural rubber from those trees and today it refers to that kind of rubber used for things like tires and waterproof clothing.