gum
1. a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
chewing gum
• Hypernyms:
sweet, confection
• Hyponyms:
gum ball, bubble gum
• Substance Meronyms:
chicle, chicle gum
2. the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
gingiva
• Derivationally related forms:
gingival (for: gingiva)
• Hypernyms:
animal tissue
• Part Holonyms:
mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris
3. any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants;
they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
• Hypernyms:
exudate, exudation
• Hyponyms:
sweet gum, liquidambar, eucalyptus gum, eucalyptus kino, red gum,
balata, gutta balata, ammoniac, gum ammoniac, carrageenin, carrageenan,
conima, dragon's blood, euphorbium, gum eurphorbium, frankincense, olibanum,
gum olibanum, thus, galbanum, gum albanum, ghatti, ghatti gum,
agar, agar-agar, algin, alginic acid, cherry-tree gum, chicle,
chicle gum, guar gum, gum arabic, gum acacia, gum butea, butea gum,
butea kino, Bengal kino, kino, gum kino, kino gum, mesquite gum,
mucilage, sterculia gum, karaya gum, gutta-percha, lacquer, opopanax,
sangapenum, gum sangapenum, tragacanth
4. cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
• Syn:
glue, mucilage
• Derivationally related forms:
mucilaginous (for: mucilage), gummy, gluey (for: glue), glue (for: glue)
• Hypernyms:
cement
• Hyponyms:
animal glue, casein glue, fish glue, marine glue
5. wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
• Syn:
gumwood
• Hypernyms:
wood
• Hyponyms:
sweet gum, satin walnut, hazelwood, red gum
• Substance Holonyms:
gum tree
6. any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
• Syn:
gum tree
• Hypernyms:
tree
• Hyponyms:
liquidambar, eucalyptus, eucalypt, eucalyptus tree, tupelo, tupelo tree
• Substance Meronyms:
gumwood
1. cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- if you gum the tape it is stronger
• Hypernyms:
put on, apply
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. grind with the gums;
chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food
• Syn:
mumble
• Derivationally related forms:
gumming, mumbling (for: mumble)
• Hypernyms:
chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. become sticky
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. exude or form gum
- these trees gum in the Spring
• Hypernyms:
exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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