fossil gum

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noun

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

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fossil gum

Gum-copal trees and bushes grow here as well as all over the country; but gum is never dug for, probably because the trees were never large enough to yield the fossil gum.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

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)

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