Gum

Quick meaning: Gum is a noun meaning (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

Meaning

(often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

More Meanings

1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
2. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
3. (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
4. (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
5. (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
6. (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
7. (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.

Example Sentences

gum-oleo-resin

Do you have a gum to spare?

He frets like a gummed velvet.

[…] becoomed wi' the gum o' the coal-hill […]

Word Forms

• gums
• gumm
• gumming
• gummed

Synonyms for gum

Depending on context, synonyms include gingiva, mumble, mucilage, glue, chewing gum, gumwood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gingiva, mucilage, chewing gum, glue, mumble, gumwood.

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