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madagascar rubber vine — noun or madagascar rubber Usage: usually capitalized M : a woody vine (Cryptostegia madagascariensis) with large whitish or pink flowers that is native to Madagascar and is grown in the tropics as an ornamental and for its milky juice that yields … Useful english dictionary
rubber vine — noun 1. : india rubber vine 2. : madagascar rubber vine 3. : Jamaican woody vine (Forsteronia floribunda) of the family Apocynaceae that yields rubber … Useful english dictionary
Madagascar — Madagascan, n., adj. /mad euh gas keuhr/, n. an island republic in the Indian Ocean, about 240 mi. (385 km) off the SE coast of Africa: formerly a French colony; gained independence 1960. 14,061,627; 227,800 sq. mi. (590,000 sq. km). Cap.:… … Universalium
MADAGASCAR — (3,500), largest island in the world but two, in the Indian Ocean, 300 m. off the Mozambique coast, SE. Africa; is nearly three times the size of Great Britain, a plateau in the centre, with low, fertile, wooded ground round about; has many… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
rubber vine — /ˈrʌbə vaɪn/ (say rubuh vuyn) noun a vigorous climber, Cryptostegia grandiflora, with white to light purple flowers; native to Madagascar and introduced as a garden plant in 1875; now a weed of northern Australia …
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Cryptostegia grandiflora — Flowers and leaves of Rubber Vine Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae … Wikipedia
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Africa — /af ri keuh/, n. 1. a continent S of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. 551,000,000; ab. 11,700,000 sq. mi. (30,303,000 sq. km). adj. 2. African. * * * I Second largest continent on Earth. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea,… … Universalium
