gum resinn.
A vegetable secretion consisting of resin mixed with gum or mucilage; e.g. ammoniac, euphorbium, gamboge, etc.
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gumc1385
mastica1398
cherry-tree, plum-tree glue1683
gum resin1712
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 64 It is a Gum-Rosin, said, by some, to come from the same Tree with the Chio Turpentine.
1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xix. 271 Gum-Resins, along with resin, have an admixture of extractive matter.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 2 The gum resin, or Euphorbium of the chemist, is procured from three species of Spurge.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 136 The term gum-resin is used to indicate..the mixture of watery and resinous secretions, which is milky when fresh.
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gum-ˈresinous adj. of the nature of a gum resin.
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masticine?a1425
gum-resinous1830
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 46 The species all abound in a viscid, yellow, acrid, and purgative gum-resinous juice resembling Gamboge.
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