A bitter, aromatic gum resin exuded by various Arabian and African trees of the genus Commiphora (family Burseraceae), esp. C. abyssinica and C.…

An aromatic vegetable juice; = balm, n.1 1.

= galbanum, n. 1.

A gum; = tragacanth, n. Also called gum dragon, and formerly adragant, n.

= dragon's blood, n.

A water-soluble gum exuded by certain acacias (esp. Acacia senegal), used in the food and cosmetics industries and in glue and incense. Cf. acacia gum…

A fragrant gum resin described by ancient writers. In early modern use applied (perhaps correctly) to the resin of the tree Styrax officinalis…

A gum resin obtained from certain Persian species of Ferula, esp. from F. galbaniflua and F. rubricaulis.

A concreted resinous gum, with a strong alliaceous odour, procured in central Asia from the Narthex asafœtida and allied umbelliferous plants…

Dragon's blood; properly the red resinous juice of a tree, but formerly believed to be a mixture of Dragon's and Elephant's blood. In this sense…

A kind of gum. In 18th cent. = gamboge, n. adj.; also gutta gamandra, gutta gamba. Obsolete.

An aromatic gum resin, yielded by trees of the genus Boswellia, used for burning as incense; olibanum; occasionally the smoke from the same.

A gum resin obtained from certain cistus plants, used in perfumery and (formerly) in medicine; = ladanum, n. 1. Formerly also: †a plant providing…

A fetid gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium (a yellow-flowered plant of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) of southern Europe)…

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

= sarcocolla, n.

= gum ammoniac: see A. 2. Also in Latin form, ammoniacum.

In various transferred senses: (see quots.). Obsolete.

A gum resin which exudes from plants of the genus cistus, n., esp. C. ladaniferus and C. Creticus, much used in perfumery and for fumigation.

A bright red gum or resin, an exudation upon the fruit of a palm, Calamus Draco. Formerly applied also to the inspissated juice of the dragon-tree…

A dry and brittle resinous substance, with a fragrant odour and slightly aromatic taste, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra…

An aromatic gum; = storax, n. 1.

A whitish gum, partially soluble in water, obtained from several shrubs of the genus Astragulus (see sense 2), used as a binding agent, and…

= tragacanth, n. 1. Also: a plant yielding this gum (rare).

Resin secreted by trees. Chiefly in poetic use: see amber-dropping adj., amber-weeping, adj. 1. Now historical and rare.

Any of various resins, chiefly copals, obtained from a variety of tropical trees, notably Hymenaea courbaril (family Caesalpiniaceae (Leguminosae))…

A gum resin mentioned by Roman writers; obtained from an umbelliferous plant called lāserpīcium or silphium (σίλϕιον).

Gum benzoin.

A sub-viscid gum resin brought from Arabia and Persia (now Iran) in light yellow or red grains.

The gum resin thus procured.

A gum resin, the solidified juice of Ferula persica, formerly used as an antispasmodic and emmenagogue, or externally. Also gum sagapenum.

A resinous gum which exudes from the bark of the tree Liquidambar styraciflua. Called also copalm balsam.

Any of various reddish gums or resins exuded from trees and shrubs.

A gum resin obtained from various trees of the genus Garcinia (see sense A. 2), used as a yellow pigment or dye, and also (now historical) as a…

= ladanum, n. 1.

in gum ammoniac, i.e. ‘gum of Ammon,’ a gum-resin, of peculiar smell, and bitterish taste, the inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (Dorema…

a superior quality of incense, known by the greater size of the drops in which it is collected; frankincense (cf. quot. 1598 at sense A. 4).

In full gum sandarac. A resin which exudes from the tree Callitris quadrivalvis, native of North-West Africa; it is used in the preparation of…

= sarcocolla, n.

In full gum adragant, adragant gum. A plant gum obtained from various shrubs of the genus Astralagus; = tragacanth, n. 1.

The name of various resins obtained from different trees growing in the East Indies, New Guinea, and New Zealand; esp. the cat's-eye resin (East I…

= sagapenum, n.; also the plant producing sagapenum.

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

The West Indian Locust-tree, Hymenæa courbaril (family Leguminosæ), a common tree of tropical South America; also the resin obtained from it (called…

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

an aromatic resin obtained from plants of the genus Styrax; (also) a plant producing such resin.

The aromatic gumresin of the Balsamodendron mukul (cf. quots.).

The tropical South American leguminous tree Parapiptadenia rigida, which is the source of a gum similar to gum arabic, and of useful timber and…

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

In full butea gum. A resin or gum obtained from Butea monosperma.

an oleoresin obtained from the trunk of the piney varnish tree, esp. when still in its fresh, fluid state.

a kind of gum obtained from an Indian shrub, Cochlospermum Gossypium (family Bixineæ); also a gum obtained from several species of Sterculia.

A resinous gum obtained from various Australian trees of the genus Xanthorrhoea (family Xanthorrhoeaceae), used (esp. formerly) for preparing…

More fully bumbo tree (usually in form bungo tree). A large leguminous tree, Daniellia thurifera, native to tropical West Africa, valued for its…

Frankincense. Resin obtained from the spruce-fir, and from various species of pine. American thus, the resin of the Long-leaved Pine, Pinus palustris…

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

= piney resin n. at sense 2d.

= gum arabic, n.

In South Asia: any of several types of gum resin obtained from tropical Asian trees; esp. that from the red silk-cotton tree, Bombax ceiba, used…

A small flat-topped spiny tree, Acacia seyal, of the family Leguminosæ, native to north-eastern parts of Africa; also, the exudate of this tree…

a yellowish thickish fluid exuding from the copalm tree, which has been used instead of storax.

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

= gum-senegal n. at gum, n.2 3a.

Used as the distinctive epithet of a variety of gum arabic exported from Suakin.

attributive, esp. Barbary ape n.,Barbary gum n.,Barbary hen n.,barbary horse n.

Gum from the olive tree. Obsolete. rare.

= ladanum, n. Also ledon-gum (Cent. Dict.).

= courbaril, n.

= gum arabic, n.

A gelatinous compound contained in wood, also called tree-gum, wood-gum.

With qualification. In the names of various mucilaginous or resinous products, prefixed to a substantive or followed by an adjective, e.g. gum acacia…

In full, karaya gum, gum karaya. A gum exuded by the Indian tree Sterculia urens when the bark is pierced: used industrially, esp. as a…