fossil gum

noun

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

Example Sentences

At their base may be found inexhaustible quantities of fossil gum, with which the carriages and furniture of civilized countries are varnished; their boles exude myrrh and frankincense; their foliage is draped with orchilla-weed, useful for dye.

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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.

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Some said that she was of the colour of a ripe banana, others that she was like fossil gum, others like a reddish oil-nut, and others again that her face was more like the colour of the moon than anything else.

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Like the fossil gum, pieces of it were found now and then on the seashore, where they had been cast up by the waves; hence, doubtless, the giving of the same name to both.

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Anciently, the substance was known as amber—a name which was subsequently applied also to the fossil gum now commonly so called.

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