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guayules

guayules is the plural of guayule.

Meaning of guayule

Noun

guayule (plural guayules)

  1. Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family.
    • Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees.2015 August 18, Diane Cardwell, “Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.”, in New York Times

Questions about guayules

What is guayules the plural of?
Guayules is the plural of guayule.

Words near guayules in the dictionary

  1. Guaymango
  2. Guaymas
  3. Guaynabo
  4. Guays
  5. guayule
  6. guayules
  7. guayusa
  8. Guazapa
  9. Guazapar
  10. guazatine
  11. Guazhou

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