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guttapercha

guttapercha is the alternative form 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

Forms of guttapercha

pluralguttaperchas

Questions about guttapercha

What is guttapercha the alternative form of?
Guttapercha is the alternative form of gutta-percha.

Words near guttapercha in the dictionary

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

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