gum arabic tree
noun
Any of various gum-yielding acacias; (in later use) especially Acacia senegal, a shrubby deciduous tree native chiefly to dry grassland and semi-desert habitats of northern Africa, which is the usual source of gum arabic.
Origin
Late 17th century.
- call someone's bluff
- call someone/thing down
- call someone/thing off
- call someone/thing to mind
- call someone/thing to order
- call someone/thing to witness
- call someone to account
- call someone up
- call something forth
- call something in
- call something into (or in) question
- call something off
- call something over
- call something up
- call the shots (or tune)
- call the tune
- call time
- call time on
- call to quarters
- calluna
- call-up
- callus
- callused
- call waiting
- calm