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fossil gum

noun

  1. any gum, found chiefly in the earth, that was yielded by a now fossilized tree.


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Amber is a fossil gum or resin, the juice of pine trees, which in course of time has become petrified like coal.

Amber is a fossil gum of trees of the genus Pinus and is thus a vegetable rather than mineral product.

Amber is the fossil gum of extinct cone-bearing trees found mainly along the Baltic coast of Prussia.

Kauri is the fossil gum of a cone-bearing tree dug from the ground in northern New Zealand.

But, wonder of wonders, we find the whole insect preserved in that fossil gum amber.

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