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gum tragacanth

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noun

  1. tragacanth.


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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