A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.
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Elasticity Roget’s Thesaurus §325
N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, # renitency, buoyancy, rubber, india(n) rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, buna-s, plastic, flexibility, young's modulus
Adj. elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable
Phr. the stress is proportional to the strain
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