Chewing gum base

• Old-school gum ingredient
• Gum ingredient
• Gum source
• Raw material for Wrigley's, once
• Chief ingredient of chewing gum
• Chewing gum gum

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, American English (in chicle-gum ), from Mexican Spanish chicle , from Nahuatl (Aztecan) tzictli .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balata \Bal"a*ta\, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.] A West Indian sapotaceous tree ( Bumelia retusa ). The bully tree ( Minusops globosa ); also, its milky juice ( ); also, its milky juice ( ), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle , ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The milky latex of the sapodilla tree, used after coagulation as the principal ingredient of chewing gum