Canadian English Meaning of gums

gums

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Definitions and Meaning of gums in English

gums

any of numerous colloidal polysaccharide substances of plant origin that are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying and are salts of complex organic acids compare mucilage, any of numerous colloidal polysaccharide substances of plant origin that are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying and are salts of complex organic acids compare mucilage sense 1, that of the sweet gum, to enlarge gullets of (a saw), a substance or deposit resembling a plant gum (as in sticky or adhesive quality), to clog, impede, or damage with or as if with gum, any of various plant exudates (as a mucilage, oleoresin, or gum resin), to chew with the gums, the wood or lumber of a gum, to exude or form gum, to cause not to work properly, any of various plant exudates (such as an oleoresin or gum resin), to smear, seal, or clog with or as if with gum, a tree (such as a black gum) that yields gum, chewing gum, a substance resembling a plant gum (as in stickiness), eucalyptus, the tissue that surrounds the necks of teeth and covers the alveolar parts of the jaws, to become gummy, the tissue along the jaws of animals that surrounds the necks of the teeth, any of various gummy plant substances including natural resins, rubber, and rubberlike substances, any of numerous complex sticky colloidal substances (as gum arabic) that are obtained from plants, harden on drying, and are either soluble in water or swell up in contact with water and that are used in preparing some drugs, for adhesives, as food thickeners, and in inks, the alveolar portion of a jaw with its enveloping soft tissues, a tree that yields a gum

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gums

any of numerous colloidal polysaccharide substances of plant origin that are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying and are salts of complex organic acids

dope,pastes,glues,bonds,Cements

fuses,liquefies,melts,Thaws,deliquescent,fluxes,liquefies

gumming (up) => Gummy, gummed (up) => gummed up, gumbos => gumbo, gum (up) => Gum up, gulps => gulps,