fossil gum

American  

noun

1. any gum, found chiefly in the earth, that was yielded by a now fossilized tree.

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fossil gum

But, wonder of wonders, we find the whole insect preserved in that fossil gum amber.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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 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.

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

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)