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A concrete juice or gum resin produced by several species of trees in Siam Ceylon and Malabar It is brought in masses or cylindrical rolls from Cambodia or Cambogia whence its name The best kind is of a dense compact texture and of a beatiful reddish yellow Taken internally it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic...
Elemi
A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium Amyris elemifera yields Mexican elemi Canarium commune the Manila elemi It is used in the manufacture of varnishes also in ointments and plasters...
Dammar
An oleoresin used in making varnishes dammar gum dammara resin It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies esp Shorea robusta and the dammar pine...
Grass tree
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoeliga having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous grasslike leaves from the center of which arises a long stem bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat tail These plants are often called ldquoblackboysrdquo from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire They yield two kinds of fragrant resin called Botany bay gum and Gum Acaroides...
manna gum
A tall tree Eucalyptus viminalis yielding a false manna...
Frankincense
A fragrant aromatic resin or gum resin burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation The best kinds now come from East Indian trees of the genus Boswellia a commoner sort from the Norway spruce Abies excelsa and other coniferous trees The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified...
camachile
a common thorny tropical American tree Pithecellobium dulce having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum...
Caoutchouc
A tenacious elastic gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America esp the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc Asia and Africa Being impermeable to liquids and gases and not readly affected by exposure to air acids and alkalies it is used especially when vulcanized for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures Also called India rubber because it was first brought from India and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks and gum elastic See Vulcanization...
Chicle
A gumlike substance obtained from the bully tree Mimusops globosa and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla Sapota zapotilla It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta percha as an adulterant of which it is used in England It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum...
huamachil
A common thorny tropical American tree Pithecellobium dulce having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum...
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