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单词 guayule
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Definition of guayule in English:

guayule

noun ɡwʌɪˈuːliɡwäˈyo͞olē
  • 1A silver-leaved Mexican shrub of the daisy family which yields large amounts of latex.

    灰白银胶菊(墨西哥产胶作物)

    Parthenium argentatum, family Compositae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As early as 1907, experiments by the Intercontinental Rubber Company were conducted on guayule, a Mexican desert shrub that contained 20 percent pure rubber that lent itself to harvesting.
    • We'll be able to conduct onsite tests to explore new uses of crops like guayule - a desert shrub that our patented research has shown is a promising new domestic source of hypoallergenic natural latex.
    • At Albany, Cornish is delineating the physical characteristics of sunflower candidates' latex and comparing them to those of latex taken from two other natural sources - the Brazilian rubber tree and a desert shrub, guayule.
    • Preliminary tests show that surgical gloves, condoms, or other products made from the natural rubber latex of a southwestern desert shrub called guayule are an effective barrier against disease-causing bacteria and viruses.
    1. 1.1mass noun A rubber substitute made from the guayule.
      银菊胶(由银胶菊的乳胶制成的橡胶)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In spite of some limitation as an alternative rubber crop due to its slow volume growth and low abundance of rubber particles, guayule has been proposed as a viable commercial alternative for hypoallergenic latex.
      • Similar transit peptides could not be found, however, in the AOS from rubber particles of guayule and in the two isoforms of the barley AOS.
      • In guayule, the most abundant rubber particle protein of 52 kDa was sequenced to be a P450 allen oxide synthase.

Origin

Early 20th century: via Latin American Spanish from Nahuatl cuauhuli.

Definition of guayule in US English:

guayule

nounɡwäˈyo͞olē
  • 1A silver-leaved Mexican shrub of the daisy family which yields large amounts of latex.

    灰白银胶菊(墨西哥产胶作物)

    Parthenium argentatum, family Compositae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At Albany, Cornish is delineating the physical characteristics of sunflower candidates' latex and comparing them to those of latex taken from two other natural sources - the Brazilian rubber tree and a desert shrub, guayule.
    • Preliminary tests show that surgical gloves, condoms, or other products made from the natural rubber latex of a southwestern desert shrub called guayule are an effective barrier against disease-causing bacteria and viruses.
    • We'll be able to conduct onsite tests to explore new uses of crops like guayule - a desert shrub that our patented research has shown is a promising new domestic source of hypoallergenic natural latex.
    • As early as 1907, experiments by the Intercontinental Rubber Company were conducted on guayule, a Mexican desert shrub that contained 20 percent pure rubber that lent itself to harvesting.
    1. 1.1 A rubber substitute made from latex produced by the guayule shrub.
      银菊胶(由银胶菊的乳胶制成的橡胶)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In spite of some limitation as an alternative rubber crop due to its slow volume growth and low abundance of rubber particles, guayule has been proposed as a viable commercial alternative for hypoallergenic latex.
      • In guayule, the most abundant rubber particle protein of 52 kDa was sequenced to be a P450 allen oxide synthase.
      • Similar transit peptides could not be found, however, in the AOS from rubber particles of guayule and in the two isoforms of the barley AOS.

Origin

Early 20th century: via Latin American Spanish from Nahuatl cuauhuli.

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