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Gum or GUM may refer to:

Natural gums

• Natural gum, any of a number of naturally occurring resinous materials in vegetative species
• Gum anima
• Gum arabic, used as food additive, adhesive et al.
• Cassia gum
• Dammar gum
• Gellan gum
• Guar gum
• Kauri Gum
• Locust bean gum
• Spruce gum
• Xanthan gum

Trees and shrubs

• Gum tree or Eucalyptus
• Black tupelo or black gum
• Blue gum
• Ghost gum
• Gum Cistus
• Log gum
• Red Gum
• Spotted gum
• Sweet-gum or Liquidambar

Astronomy

• Gum (crater), on the Moon
• Gum Nebula, an emission nebula
• Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), Australian astronomer

Geography

• Gum-Gum, a township in Malaysia
• Gum Springs, Arkansas
• White Gum Valley, Western Australia
• The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia

Fiction

• Mr. Gum, the central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
• Gum, a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
• Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Codes

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3-code for Guam
• IATA code for Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport

Other uses

• Gingiva, or gums, is the soft tissue partly covering teeth
• Chewing gum
• Postage stamp gum
• Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body
• Genitourinary medicine
• Glasgow University Magazine
• Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO), see Measurement uncertainty
• GUM (department store), a large department store in Moscow, Russia

See also

• Gummy (disambiguation)
• Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gŭm, IPA: gʌm, SAMPA: gVm
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Old English goma; akin to German Gaumen 'gums', Old Norse gomr ‘palate’.

Noun

gum (plural gums)

1. (often in plural) The flesh round the teeth.

Synonyms

• gingiva (medical term)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

to gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal
2. To befoul, to complicate, to mess up. Normally used with "up".
   • That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
   • The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.

Etymology 2

Middle English gomme, from Old French gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin gummi, from Greek κόμμι, from Egyptian kema., kemai 'resin'.

Noun

gum (countable and uncountable; plural gums)

1. (uncountable) any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants
2. (uncountable) any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants
3. (uncountable) chewing gum
4. (countable) a single piece of chewing gum

   Do you have a gum I could have?

Derived terms

Related terms

• gumma
• gummatous
• gummic acid
• gummiferous
• gummite
• gummose
• gummosis
• gummosity
• gummous

Translations

chewing gum See chewing gum

• Ido: gumo (3)
• Spanish: goma f. (1 and/or 2), chicle m. (3)
• Swedish: gummi n. (1,2), tuggummi n. (3)

Verb

to gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

1. To apply an adhesive or gum to
2. (colloquial) With up, to impair the functioning of a thing or process.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of gmu
• mug

Scots

Etymology 1

English gum

Noun

gum (plural gums)

1. gum

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.

Alternative spellings

• gumm

Noun

gum (plural gums)

1. mist, vapour, haze