guayule

English

Noun

guayule (plural guayules)

1. Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family.
   • 2015 August 18, Diane Cardwell, “Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees.