guayule

Noun

gua=yu=le

WORDNET DICTIONARY

guayule(n = noun.plant) parthenium argentatum - much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber; Array

is a member of genus parthenium, parthenium

is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex

guayule, n. 1 a silver-leaved shrub, Parthenium argentatum, native to Mexico.
2 a rubber substitute made from the sap of this plant.

Etymology

Amer. Sp. f. Nahuatl cuauhuli