Substance tirée du latex.
ETYM Malay gutah gum + pertja the tree from which is it procured.
Juice of various tropical trees of the sapodilla family (such as the Malaysian Palaquium gutta), which can be hardened to form a flexible, rubbery substance used for electrical insulation, dentistry, and golf balls; it has now been largely replaced by synthetics.
A whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of the gutta-percha tree.