Meaning & use
seringa
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the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) native to the Amazon basin, or the natural rubber latex historically tapped from it.
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During the Amazon rubber boom, fortunes were made and lost trading seringa latex.
Workers known as seringueiros trekked deep into the forest to tap the seringa trees.
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The word comes from Portuguese, and is the root of 'seringueiro', the term for the rubber tappers of the Brazilian Amazon.
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rubber tree
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