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EBONITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ebonite mean?
• EBONITE (noun)
The noun EBONITE has 1 sense:
1. a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber
Familiarity information: EBONITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
ebonite; hard rubber; vulcanite
Hypernyms ("ebonite" is a kind of...):
caoutchouc; gum elastic; India rubber; natural rubber; rubber (an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products)
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