guayule

noun

gua·yu·le gwī-ˈü-lē

wī-

: a much-branched composite shrub (Parthenium argentatum) of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. that has been cultivated as a source of rubber

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Those tires contained guayule, part of an agrarian prototype effort from Bridgestone, the supplier of spec tires for that series. —

Tim Stevens, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023 Virtually every tire manufacturer is making at least token efforts to increase the usage of sustainable materials like guayule. —

Tim Stevens, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023 Bridgestone grows guayule for its tires in Arizona. —

Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2023 The Firestone Firehawk guayule tire is partially composed of a new sustainable natural rubber that comes from the guayule shrub that requires less reharvesting that traditional rubber sources. —

Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for guayule