hevea

From the genus name.

hevea (plural heveas)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

• heave

From the genus name Hevea, from Quechua hyeve (“rubber tree”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈβe.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈve.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eˈve.a]

hevea f (plural hevees)

1. rubber tree (plant in the genus Hevea)

   Synonyms: arbre del cautxú, siringa

• cautxú

• “hevea”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from French hévéa.

hevea f (uncountable)

1. rubber tree

From the genus name Hevea, from Quechua hyeve (“rubber tree”).

• IPA^(key): /eˈbea/ [eˈβ̞e.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: he‧ve‧a

hevea f (plural heveas)

1. rubber tree

   Synonyms: árbol del caucho, (Latin America) caucho, (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru) siringa

• “hevea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024