sugar gum

British  

noun

1. a small eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, having smooth bark and barrel-shaped fruits and grown for timber and ornament. It has sweet-tasting leaves which are often eaten by livestock

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sugar gum

Herbivorous animals, on the contrary, derive nearly all their fat from starch, sugar, gum, cellulose, and other non-nitrogenous, but not fatty, materials.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

We have found then the following substances in plants: Woody fibre or cellulose, starch, sugar, gum, fats and oils, albuminoids, water, ashes.

From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich

For instance, barley contains starch, mucilaginous sugar, gum, adhesive matter, vegetable albumen, phosphate of lime, oil, fibre and water.

From The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann

Also contained in the Moss are cetrarin, uncrystallizable sugar, gum, and green wax; with potash, and phosphate of lime.

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

Such substances are starch, sugar, gum, and pectine.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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