fossil gum

noun

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

Example Sentences

Amber is a fossil gum or resin, the juice of pine trees, which in course of time has become petrified like coal.

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Amber is a fossil gum of trees of the genus Pinus and is thus a vegetable rather than mineral product.

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Amber is the fossil gum of extinct cone-bearing trees found mainly along the Baltic coast of Prussia.

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Kauri is the fossil gum of a cone-bearing tree dug from the ground in northern New Zealand.

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

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