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
Gummic acid is soluble in water; when well dried at 100� C., it becomes transformed into metagummic acid, which is insoluble, but swells up in water like gum tragacanth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Gum kuteera resembles in appearance gum tragacanth, for which the attempt has occasionally been made to substitute it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Perfumers, however, chiefly make bandoline from gum tragacanth, which exudes from a shrub of that name which grows plentifully in Greece and Turkey.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
Marsh-mallow, alth�a, coltsfoot, tussilago farfara, gum arabic, mimosa nilotica, gum tragacanth, astragalus tragacantha.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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