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chicle
[ chik-uhl ]
noun
- a gumlike substance obtained from the latex of certain tropical American trees, as the sapodilla, used chiefly in the manufacture of chewing gum.
chicle
/ ˈtʃɪkəl /
noun
- a gumlike substance obtained from the sapodilla; the main ingredient of chewing gum Also calledchicle gum
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicle1
1860–65, Americanism; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl tzictli
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicle1
from Spanish, from Nahuatl chictli
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Example Sentences
In 1885 the United States imported 929,959 pounds of chicle.
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Within thirty days he must remove his wagons, his tractors, his chicle kettles, everything that belongs to him.
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Someone had told him that Daego had made a quarter of a million dollars the previous year on chicle.
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Burl had been with him once before, when they had trekked through the chicle forests of Guatemala in search of a lost Mayan city.
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El chicle se saca del zapote y del chicozapote, rboles de Mjico y Amrica Central.
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