gutta : Idioms & Phrases

• noun low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered
  Garcinia hanburyi; Garcinia cambogia; gamboge tree.
  

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• noun when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
  balata.
  

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• L., lit. serene or clear drop (Med.), amaurosis.

Webster 1913

• noun a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables
  

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Gut"ta-per`cha noun

Etymology

Malay gutah gum + pertja the tree from which is it procured.

Definitions

1. A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, ∨ Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.

Webster 1913

• noun one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha
  
• noun one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha
  gutta-percha tree.
  

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• > (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.

Webster 1913

• noun one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha
  gutta-percha tree.
  

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