Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. --
Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree
(Xanlhorrhúa). -- Gum animal (Zoˆl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so
called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animÈ. See
AnimÈ. - - Gum arabic, a gum yielded mostly by several species of
Acacia (chiefly A. vera and A. Arabica) growing in Africa and Southern
Asia; -- called also gum acacia. East Indian gum arabic comes from a
tree of the Orange family which bears the elephant apple. -- Gum butea,
a gum yielded by the Indian plants Butea frondosa and B. superba, and
used locally in tanning and in precipitating indigo. -- Gum cistus, a
plant of the genus Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus), a species of rock rose.
-- Gum dragon. See Tragacanth. -- Gum elastic, Elastic gum. See
Caoutchouc. -- Gum elemi. See Elemi. -- Gum juniper. See Sandarac. --
Gum kino. See under Kino. -- Gum lac. See Lac. -- Gum Ladanum, a
fragrant gum yielded by several Oriental species of Cistus or rock
rose. -- Gum passages, sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma
of certain plants (AmygdalaceÊ, CactaceÊ, etc.), and affording passage
for gum. -- Gum pot, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and
mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant
solidified by exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps,
mixtures of, or having properties of, gum and resin; a resin containing
more or less mucilaginous and gummy matter. -- Gum sandarac. See
Sandarac. -- Gum Senegal, a gum similar to gum arabic, yielded by trees
(Acacia Verek and A. Adansoni‰) growing in the Senegal country, West
Africa. -- Gum tragacanth. See Tragacanth. -- Gum tree, the name given
to several trees in America and Australia: (a) The black gum (Nyssa
multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a
small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large
trees become hollow. (b) A tree of the genus Eucalyptus. See
Eucalpytus. (c) The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar
styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves
and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice. --
Gum water, a solution of gum, esp. of gum arabic, in water. -- Gum
wood, the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the Eucalyptus
piperita, of New South Wales.
Gum, v. t. [imp. &. p. Gummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.] To smear
with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike
substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
He frets like a gummed velvet.
Shak.
Gum, v. i. To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
Gum"bo (?), n. [Written also gombo.] 1. A soup thickened with the
mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.