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Answer for the clue "Double the amount of work put on my colleague, by gum! ", 8 letters:
opopanax

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Opopanax , also known as opobalsam , refers to a number of gum resins (natural substances that are a mixture of water-soluble gums and alcohol-soluble resins ) traditionally considered to have medicinal properties. Pliny ( Historia Naturalis ) and Dioscorides ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A gum resin obtained from the root of (taxlink Opopanax chironium species noshow=1), formerly used in medicine. 2 A perfume made from the gum resin of various trees. 3 The opopanax tree, (taxlink Acacia farnesiana species ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opopanax \O*pop"a*nax\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? vegetable juice + pa`nax, pa`nakes, a kind of plant: cf. F. opopanax.] The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum ), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes ...

Usage examples of opopanax.

For many days now he had lain in bed in a room exuding silver, crimson, and electric light, smelling of opopanax and of cigars.

People still washed themselves with soap made with oil of opopanax, a fragrant plant.

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