gum resin

American  

noun

1. a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.

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gum resin British  

noun

1. a mixture of resin and gum obtained from various plants and trees See also bdellium gamboge

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Other Word Forms

• gum-resinous
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of gum resin

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

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gum resin

Stradivari used a tacky concoction provided by a local apothecary, the known ingredients of which were oil, gum resin and vegetable coloring.

From Time Magazine Archive

The various glands which separate from the vegetable blood the honey, wax, gum, resin, starch, sugar, essential oil, &c.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin

Vateria indica.—This plant yields a useful gum resin, called Indian copal, piney varnish, white dammar, or gum anine.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders

They contain a volatile oil which, like that of Chamomile, although cordial, lowers nervous sensibility, or irritability: also tannin, a gum resin, and woody fibre.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

Olibanum is a gum resin, used to a limited extent in this country, in the manufacture of incense and pastilles.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse