What is "black gums"

Usage examples of "black gums".

I was desperate for company, even that of a Buddhist arhat with black gums.

Pink-and-black gums wet with saliva reminded her of scorched flesh.

Its eyes burned red like coals, and its teeth were black ivory set in wholly black gums.

And his lips stretched in a terrible grin that revealed gray-black gums which were growing their own garden of mold.

A gash had opened in his flesh, a set of black gums peeled back from crumbling teeth, and a tongue of lard moving there, between them.

Someone was shuffling along the passage, and when I turned, I saw one of the burnt ones -- a mere skeleton, this one, with black gums showing and the fangs cutting into the shiny black raisin skin of his lower lip.

Someone was shuffling along the passage, and when I turned, I saw one of the burnt ones-a mere skeleton, this one, with black gums showing and the fangs cutting into the shiny black raisin skin of his lower lip.

All she could see were sharp wet teeth, black gums, and blazing yellow eyes.