Word Meaning

Meaning of gum

- The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
- To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
- A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
- See Gum tree, below.
- A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.
- A rubber overshoe.
- To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
- To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

Crossword clue for gum

- A tree type
- Adhesive
- Australian tree
- Eucalypt
- Eucalypt tree
- Eucalyptus tree
- Flesh around the teeth
- Glue
- Glue used, mainly in early stages
- Glum learner departed? Sticky business
- Mouth part
- Part of mouth
- Plant secretion
- Step back into drain
- Sticky gel from eucalypt
- Sticky plant resin
- Sticky stuff
- Sticky substance
- Sticky substance found in legumes
- Substance used as an adhesive
- Tree secretion
- Type of tree