gutta-percha
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See also: guttapercha and gutta percha
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay getah perca.
Pronunciation
Noun
gutta-percha (countable and uncountable, plural gutta-perchas)
- An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
- 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:
- 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 .
- 1863, The Football Association Laws, rule 13:
- No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.
Translations
a latex
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French
Pronunciation
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Noun
gutta-percha f (uncountable)
Further reading
- “gutta-percha”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.