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gutta-perchas

gutta-perchas is the plural of gutta-percha.

Meaning of gutta-percha

Noun

gutta-percha (countable and uncountable, plural gutta-perchas)

  1. An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
    • 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...1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205

Questions about gutta-perchas

What is gutta-perchas the plural of?
Gutta-perchas is the plural of gutta-percha.

Words near gutta-perchas in the dictionary

  1. gutta hangkang
  2. gutta percha
  3. gutta perchas
  4. gutta serena
  5. gutta-percha
  6. gutta-perchas
  7. guttae
  8. guttah
  9. guttapercha
  10. guttaperchas
  11. guttas

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