a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

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

cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum

grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty

become sticky

exude or form gum

gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)

an alcohol-soluble resin from Australian trees; used in varnishes and in manufacturing paper

a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida

the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant

any of various resins or oleoresins

gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)

a ball of chewing gum with a coating of colored sugar

gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

a high boot made of rubber

dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent

any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine

an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products

fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense

an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine

a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning

a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses

aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume

an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock

a mixture of resin and gum

a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth

a variety of gum

obtained from conifers (especially pines)

any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

stick together as if with gum

an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar

resembling chewing gum

any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus

long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

tropical American tree yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes

a boil or abscess on the gums

a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals

a small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis

covered with adhesive gum

an adhesive label

the property of being cohesive and sticky