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chicle

[ chik-uhl ]

noun

  1. 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

  1. a gumlike substance obtained from the sapodilla; the main ingredient of chewing gum Also calledchicle gum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

Within thirty days he must remove his wagons, his tractors, his chicle kettles, everything that belongs to him.

Someone had told him that Daego had made a quarter of a million dollars the previous year on chicle.

Burl had been with him once before, when they had trekked through the chicle forests of Guatemala in search of a lost Mayan city.

El chicle se saca del zapote y del chicozapote, rboles de Mjico y Amrica Central.

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