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Definition 2024
Hevea
Hevea
Translingual
Proper noun
Hevea f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Euphorbiaceae – including the most economically important rubber tree.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Euphorbiaceae - family; Crotonoideae - subfamily; Micrandreae - tribe; Heveinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Hevea guianensis - type species; Hevea benthamiana, Hevea brasiliensis (Para rubber tree), Hevea microphylla, Hevea nitida, Hevea pauciflora, Hevea spruceana - species
hevea
hevea
English
Noun
hevea (plural heveas)
- (botany) Any of the genus Hevea of flowering plants in the spurge family, including the economically important rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis.
- 2015 August 18, Diane Cardwell, “Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.”, in New York Times:
- Tire executives say that global demand for tires, which use as much as 70 percent of the world’s rubber supply, will expand as less developed nations industrialize, requiring roughly 21 million additional acres of hevea, the source of natural rubber, by 2024.
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