GUM
Definition:
- [noun] a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
Synonyms: chewing
- [noun] the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
Synonyms: gingiva
- [noun] any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- [noun] cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
Synonyms: glue, mucilage
- [noun] wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
Synonyms: wood
- [noun] any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
Synonyms: tree
- [verb] grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
Synonyms: mumble
- [verb] exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"
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Related Words:
- gum ball
- bubble gum
- sweet gum, liquidambar
- eucalyptus gum, eucalyptus kino, red gum
- balata, gutta balata
- ammoniac, gum ammoniac
- carrageenin, carrageenan
- conima
- dragon's blood
- euphorbium, gum eurphorbium
- frankincense, olibanum, gum olibanum, thus
- galbanum, gum albanum
- ghatti, ghatti gum
- agar, agar-agar
- algin, alginic acid
- cherry-tree gum
- chicle, chicle gum
- chewing gum
- guar gum
- gum arabic, gum acacia
- gum butea, butea gum, butea kino, Bengal kino
- kino, gum kino, kino gum
- mesquite gum
- mucilage
- sterculia gum, karaya gum
- gutta-percha
- lacquer
- opopanax
- sangapenum, gum sangapenum
- tragacanth
- animal glue
- casein glue
- fish glue
- marine glue
- sweet gum, satin walnut, hazelwood, red gum
- liquidambar
- eucalyptus, eucalypt, eucalyptus tree
- tupelo, tupelo tree
