plant gum
41gum plant — noun any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock • Syn: ↑gumweed, ↑tarweed, ↑rosinweed • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑ …
42gum tragacanth — Tragacanth Trag a*canth, n. [L. tragacanthum tragacanth, tragacantha the plant producing tragacanth, Gr. ? ? a he goat + ? a thorn: cf. F. tragacanthe.] A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub ({Astragalus gummifer}) of Western Asia …
43gum ammoniac — /gʌm əˈmoʊniæk/ (say gum uh mohneeak) noun a medicinal gum resin from the umbelliferous plant, Dorema ammoniacum, of Persia, etc …
44gum duct — noun or gum canal : an intercellular canal in a plant for the secretion or passage of gum …
45gum resin — noun Date: 1712 a product consisting essentially of a mixture of gum and resin usually obtained by making an incision in a plant and allowing the juice which exudes to solidify …
46gum ammoniac — a brownish yellow gum resin, having an acrid taste, occurring in tearlike fragments from a plant, Dorema ammoniacum, of western Asia: used in porcelain ceramics and in medicine as an expectorant and counterirritant. Also called ammoniac,… …
47gum resin — noun A mixture of gum and resin secreted by a plant …
48gum resin — noun a plant secretion consisting of resin mixed with gum …
49gum resin — /gʌm ˈrɛzən/ (say gum rezuhn) noun a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gums and resins, as bdellium, gamboge, etc …
50gum succory — noun : a European biennial weed (Chondrilla juncea) with large pinnatifid basal leaves and branching wiry stems bearing yellow rayed flowers; broadly : a plant of the genus Chondrilla …
