fossil gum
Americannoun
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Anciently, the substance was known as amber—a name which was subsequently applied also to the fossil gum now commonly so called.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
Kauri is the fossil gum of a cone-bearing tree dug from the ground in northern New Zealand.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)
Amber is the fossil gum of extinct cone-bearing trees found mainly along the Baltic coast of Prussia.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)
Like the fossil gum, pieces of it were found now and then on the seashore, where they had been cast up by the waves; hence, doubtless, the giving of the same name to both.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
Amber is a fossil gum or resin, the juice of pine trees, which in course of time has become petrified like coal.
From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by Brennan, W. A.
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