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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND latex – amilky fluid or juice which is collected frommany plants because of its special rubber properties parasitic – an organismwhich lives either in (or on) another organism, gaining protection and nourishment while giving nothing back in return stigma – a flower pistil’s upper part which receives pollen, and where the pollen grain germinates tendrils – threadlike, leafless organs of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attach to or twines around some other body, so as to support the plant vulcanization – the process of chemically treating crude rubber in order to give it highly useful properties like strength, stability, and elasticity

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