Gum
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Gum or GUM may refer to:
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Astronomy
- Gum (crater), on the Moon
- Gum Nebula, an emission nebula
- Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), Australian astronomer
[edit] Geography
- Gum-Gum, a township in Malaysia
- Gum Springs, Arkansas
- White Gum Valley, Western Australia
- The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia
[edit] 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
[edit] Codes
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3-code for Guam
- IATA code for Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
- Gummy (disambiguation)
- Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
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