gum tragacanth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gum tragacanth
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the name of Caramania gum it is mixed with inferior kinds of gum tragacanth before exportation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
For a still higher finish the biscuit is sized with a solution of gum tragacanth.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.
The most important vegetable productions are—cereals, cotton, gum tragacanth, liquorice, olive oil, opium, rice, saffron, salep, tobacco and yellow berries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Some artists now put gum tragacanth into the mixture.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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