Pluriel: gums

In botany, complex polysaccharides (carbohydrates) formed by many plants and trees, particularly by those from dry regions. They form four main groups: plant exudates (gum arabic); marine plant extracts (agar); seed extracts; and fruit and vegetable extracts. Some are made synthetically.
Gums are tasteless and odorless, insoluble in alcohol and ether but generally soluble in water. They are used for adhesives, fabric sizing, in confectionery, medicine, and calico printing.

Pluriel: gums

In mammals, the soft tissues surrounding the base of the teeth. Gums are liable to inflammation (gingivitis) or to infection by microbes from food deposits (periodontal disease).

Pluriel: gums

Any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying.

To exude or from gum; of certain trees.

Pluriel: gum arabics

Gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals); SYN. gum acacia.
Substance obtained from certain species of acacia, with uses in medicine, confectionery, and adhesive manufacture.
A water-soluble gum obtained from several acacias (especially Acacia senegal) and used especially in the manufacture of inks, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, and confections.

Pluriel: gum balls

A ball of chewing gum with a coating of colored sugar.

Pluriel: gum boots

Rubber boot.

Pluriel: gum buteas

Dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent; SYN. butea gum, butea kino, Bengal kino.

Pluriel: gum resins

A mixture of resin and gum, 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.

Pluriel: Gum Springs

Town in Arkansas (USA).

Pluriel: gum tragacanths

Tragacanth.

Pluriel: gum trees

Common name for the eucalyptus tree.
Any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum; SYN. gum. gumtree

Pluriel: gum turpentines

Turpentine.

To stick together as if with gum.

Pluriel: gum-lacs

An inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar.