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gutta-percha (n.)
[gutta-percha 词源字典]
1845, from Malay
getah percha
, literally "the gum of
percha
," the name of the tree; the form of the word was influenced by Latin
gutta
"drop." As the name of the tree itself, from 1860.
[gutta-percha etymology, gutta-percha origin, 英语词源]