| gum | (noun) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth | Synonyms: gingiva |
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| (noun) a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing | Synonyms: chewing gum |
| (noun) any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum | Synonyms: gum tree |
| (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gumwood |
| (noun) any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying | - |
| (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: glue, mucilage |
| (verb) exude or form gum | - |
| (verb) become sticky | - |
| (verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: mumble |
| (verb) cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum | - |
| gumbo | (noun) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods | - |
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| (noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: okra |
| (noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant |
| (noun) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water | Synonyms: gumbo soil |
| gumboil | (noun) a boil or abscess on the gums | - |
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| gumdrop | (noun) a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals | - |
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| gumma | (noun) a small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis | - |
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| gummed | (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummy |
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| gumminess | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| gumming | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: mumbling |
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| gummite | (noun) a gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende | - |
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| gummosis | (noun) pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees | - |
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| (noun) disease of citrus trees caused by the fungus Phytophthora citrophthora | Synonyms: brown rot gummosis |
| gummy | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummed |
| gumption | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, horse sense, mother wit, sense |
| gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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| gumshield | (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| gumshoe | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, hawkshaw |
| gumweed | (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, rosinweed, tarweed |
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| gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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