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A gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing
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tragacanth
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tragacanth is a natural gum obtained from the dried sap of several species of Middle Eastern legumes of the genus Astragalus , including A. adscendens , A. gummifer , A. brachycalyx , and A. tragacanthus . Some of these species are known collectively under ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dracanth \Dra"canth\, n. A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth , or tragacanth . See Tragacanth .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a polysaccharide gum, extracted from several species of leguminous plants of the genus ''Astragalus'', used as a food additive
Usage examples of tragacanth.
There were stone jars brimming with honey, preserved and dried fruits, salt meat, sainfoin, stockfeed, leather, pots and porringers, pitchers and porcelain, fragrances, essences, spices, saffron, scrim, shabrack, musk, muslin, madder, purpurin, talmigold, tragacanth, wax, and all other manner of provisions.
He taught me, in the presence of my new mother, how to fix it with some tragacanth gum, and I found myself exactly like my friend.
A bottle of gum tragacanth stood on one corner of the dressing-table, and with its contents Abby matted the unneighborly locks together.
We found no traces of gum tragacanth or any binding starch in the crime-scene samples.
He taught me, in the presence of my new mother, how to fix it with some tragacanth gum, and I found myself exactly like my friend.
Another compound Acacia Powder used sparingly as an absorbent pill excipient, is made of equal parts of Gum Acacia and Tragacanth.
Then from the jar he took a box of rock crystal containing a sort of greenish compound which he kneaded into a little gum - gum tragacanth, I afterward learned, - and bade us taste.
Finally I add some gum tragacanth, which closes the wound more rapidly.