Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rubber plant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Limped with him back to his tank, fed him, and retrieved the Climbing Perch from my rubber plant.
▪ There is a rubber plant and another one - he doesn't know what it's called but it's his favourite.
Wiktionary
rubber plant
n. 1 (taxlink Ficus elastica species noshow=1), a tropical tree used as a houseplant native to Asia.''The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, 1998''Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them'', Könemann, 2004 2 A tree which can produce latex, a rubber tree, including (taxlink Hevea brasiliensis species noshow=1).
WordNet
rubber plant
n. large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber [syn: India-rubber tree, India-rubber plant, India-rubber fig, Assam rubber, Ficus elastica]
Wikipedia
Rubber plant
Rubber plant may mean:
- Para rubber tree - a major commercial source of natural rubber
- Castilla elastica - a source of rubber for the ancient Maya people
- Ficus elastica - common ornamental plant