GUM ARABIC

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Meaning:

Gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)

Synonyms:

gum acacia; gum arabic

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("gum arabic" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gum arabic"):

Senegal gum (gum arabic from the vicinity of the Senegal river)

Holonyms ("gum arabic" is a substance of...):

acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)