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Definition of "caoutchouc" [caout•chouc]

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "caoutchouc" in a sentence
  • "The tree furnishes a viscid juice containing caoutchouc, which is used as glue for calking canoes."
  • "It is no doubt occasioned by the caoutchouc, which is not yet separated, and which forms one mass with the albumen and the caseum, as the butter and the caseum in animal milk."
  • "We have already mentioned that the caoutchouc is the oily part, the butter of all vegetable milk."