Lagos rubber

noun

: high-grade rubber yielded in moderate quantity by a tropical African tree (Funtumia elastica) sometimes cultivated prior to the general cultivation of Brazilian rubber trees

Word History

Etymology

from Lagos, former province of Nigeria

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