Gum vs. Mucilage

Gumnoun

The flesh around the teeth.

Mucilagenoun

A thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms.

Gumnoun

Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.

Mucilagenoun

A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

Gumnoun

Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.

Mucilagenoun

An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; a glue; a liquid adhesive; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.

Gumnoun

Chewing gum.

Mucilagenoun

a gelatinous substance secreted by plants

Gumnoun

(countable) A single piece of chewing gum.

‘Do you have a gum to spare?’;

Mucilagenoun

cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

Gumnoun

A gummi candy.

Mucilagenoun

a viscous secretion or bodily fluid.

Gumnoun

A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.

Mucilagenoun

a polysaccharide substance extracted as a viscous or gelatinous solution from plant roots, seeds, etc., and used in medicines and adhesives.

Gumnoun

A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.

Mucilagenoun

an adhesive solution; gum or glue.

Gumnoun

A rubber overshoe.

Mucilage

Mucilage is a thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms. These microorganisms include protists which use it for their locomotion.

Gumnoun

A gum tree.

Gumverb

To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.

Gumverb

(transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Gumverb

}} To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.

Gumverb

To stiffen with glue or gum.

Gumverb

}} To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

‘That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.’; ‘The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.’;

Gumnoun

The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

Gumnoun

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.

Gumnoun

See Gum tree, below.

Gumnoun

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.

Gumnoun

A rubber overshoe.

Gumverb

To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

Gumverb

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.

‘He frets like a gummed velvet.’;

Gumverb

To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.

Gumverb

To exude or form gum; to become gummy.

Gumnoun

a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

Gumnoun

the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

Gumnoun

any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

Gumnoun

cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

Gumnoun

wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

Gumnoun

any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

Gumverb

grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty;

‘the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food’;