Balata

[Julian]

[Another word] for [bullshit]

[Greta]

when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls

[tolikkk]

Balata is a hard, natural rubber-like material obtained from the latex produced by the tropical American tree species Manilkara bidentata. It has been used in various products such as golf balls, belts, hoses, and machine parts due to its resistance and flexibility. It was also used in early 20th-century as a cheaper alternative to gutta-percha in the manufacture of golf balls.

[Jacobanade]

bal′a-ta, n. the gum of the bullet or bully tree of South America, used as a substitute for gutta-percha in insulating telegraph-wires.

[Couch Potatoe]

a vegetable gum used as a substitute for gutta-percha, being at once ductile and elastic; goes under the name of bully.

[riiiilhuvono]

A gum used as an insulating material. It is the inspissated juice of a sapotaceous tree, the bullet tree, Mimusops globosa, of tropical America, from the Antilles to Guiana. It is intermediate in character between caoutchouc and gutta percha. It is superior to gutta percha in some respects, being very slightly acted on by light. Synonym--Chicle. B. S.. W. G. Abbreviation for Brown Sharpe Wire Gauge; the regular American Wire Gauge. (See Wire Gauge, American.)

[ThomasSlege]

a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber