gum resin

American  

noun

1. a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.

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gum resin British  

noun

1. a mixture of resin and gum obtained from various plants and trees See also bdellium gamboge

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Other Word Forms

• gum-resinous adjective

Etymology

Origin of gum resin

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

Stradivari used a tacky concoction provided by a local apothecary, the known ingredients of which were oil, gum resin and vegetable coloring.

From Time Magazine Archive

They contain a volatile oil which, like that of Chamomile, although cordial, lowers nervous sensibility, or irritability: also tannin, a gum resin, and woody fibre.

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

These consist of an elastic gum, closely resembling Indian rubber, gum tragacynth, another gum yielded by a sort of capparis and which I believe to be hitherto unknown, and two kinds of gum resin.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George

The trunk exudes a gum resin in masses varying in color from red to yellow.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

The various glands which separate from the vegetable blood the honey, wax, gum, resin, starch, sugar, essential oil, &c.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus