The gutta-percha tree (Isonandra gutta) is a large tree, some 20 metres tall of the family Sapotaceae growing in South-East Asia, including at one time in Singapore, but excessive cutting of the trees there instead of tapping them for their resin led to their extinction on Singapore. It's resin (gutta- percha) is tapped and used as a form of rubber...
[n] - East Indian tree yielding gutta-percha 2. [n] - East Indian tree yielding gutta-percha
noun one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha