gutta-percha

• guttapercha, gutta percha
• guttah (obsolete)

Borrowed from Malay getah perca.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡʌɾəˈpɝtʃə/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡʌtəˈpɜːtʃə/

gutta-percha (countable and uncountable, plural gutta-perchas)

1. An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
   • 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:

     Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

   • 1863, The Football Association Laws, rule 13:

     No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.

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gutta-percha f (uncountable)

1. gutta-percha

• “gutta-percha”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.