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GUAR GUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gum from seeds of the guar plant; used to thicken foods and as sizing for paper and cloth
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Hypernyms ("guar gum" is a kind of...):
gum (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)