Crossword-Solution: CAOUTCHOUC
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| Caoutchouc | n. | A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. |
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| CAHUCHU | 1 answer |
| Pure rubber. | 1 answer |
| indiarubber | 3 answers |
| gum resin | 19 answers |
| flexibility | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
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Hint 2 anagram
NETMIOO
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with CAOUTCHOUC (5)
Three feet—six—nine, at least: with a capability of seemingly endless expansion; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black, with paler longitudinal lines.
The balloon is made of long strips of silk, sewn together, and rendered air-tight by means of a coating of caoutchouc.
This tree the Indians called one unpronounceable name, and it made good bows; that, some other name, and it made good canoes; of that, you could eat the fruit; that produced the caoutchouc gum, useful for a hundred matters; that was what the Indians (and they likewise) used to poison their arrows with; from the ashes of those palm-nuts you could make good salt; that tree, again, was full of good milk if you bored the stem: they drank it, and gave God thanks, and were not astonished.
This latter kind of silk was designated as silk-buckingham, on account of its superior durability, and was usually prepared for use by being varnished with a solution of gum caoutchouc—a substance which in some respects must have resembled the gutta percha now in common use.
This caoutchouc was occasionally called Indian rubber or rubber of twist, and was no doubt one of the numerous fungi.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).