> Perhaps you should look up "latex" and "plastic" in a dictionary. "Plastic" doesn't necessarily mean "made of plastic". Saying a substance is plastic refers to it being impressionable, bendy, squidgy, stretchy and so forth. Likewise, latex is a term for the sap of certain plants, as well as being a particular artificially created substance. Chicle is made from the sap (latex) of one such plant.

Out of curiosity, did you already know those alternative definitions, or did you look them up?

Also, it's kind of interesting how plastic and latex have those two separate, but in both ways somewhat realted, definitions.

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