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Definition of Guayule
1. Noun. Much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber.
Group relationships: Genus Parthenium, Parthenium
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Guayule
1. a shrub that is a source of rubber [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guayule
Literary usage of Guayule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rubber by Philip Schidrowitz (1911)
"CHAPTER VII INDUSTRIAL RUBBERS I TAKE the liberty of applying the generic term "
Industrial " to rubbers—such as those obtained from the guayule shrub and ..."
2. The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore by Botanic Gardens (Singapore (1907)
"guayule Rubber. The invention of a practical method of extracting the rubber from
the guayule plant of Northern Mexico has lead to over- sanguine estimates ..."
3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"(The end) PARTHENIUM LLOYDII, A NEW MEXICAN guayule BY HARLEY HARRIS BARTLETT In
the summer of 1909 Prof. FE Lloyd referred to the writer for study and ..."
4. Rubber Machinery: An Encyclopedia of Machines Used in Rubber Manufacture by Henry Clemens Pearson (1915)
"THE extraction of rubber from guayule shrubs, vines ¡nul and gutta from ...
The ordinary process for extracting guayule from the shrub as follows: The bales ..."
5. Industrial Mexico: 1919 Facts and Figures by Philip Harvey Middleton (1919)
"guayule rubber. Rubber factories. Cattle industry. Sisal. Vine culture.
New developments. Irrigation. MEXICO is more richly endowed with agricultural ..."
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