Gum
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Gum or GUM may refer to:
Edibles and associated products[edit]
Nature gums[edit]
Some articles are listed here. Others are mentioned in the article Natural gum.
Animal gums[edit]
- Gingiva, or gums, is the soft tissue partly covering teeth
Vegetal gums[edit]
- Various natural gums including:
- Gum arabic, made from the sap of species of the acacia tree
- Gum copal, a resin produced from the sap of the forest tree Daniella
- Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
- Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
People[edit]
- Allen Gum, American college baseball coach
- Gum (footballer), Brazilian footballer
- Jay Watson, aka GUM, Australian musician
Fictional characters[edit]
- 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
- Gum, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
- Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Geography[edit]
- Gum-Gum, a township in Malaysia
- Gum Springs, Arkansas
- White Gum Valley, Western Australia
- The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia
- Guam International Airport (IATA airport code: GUM)
Other uses[edit]
- GUM (department store), a large department store in Moscow, Russia
- Gum languages of New Guinea
- Genitourinary medicine
- Glasgow University Magazine
- Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO), see Measurement uncertainty
- Adhesive
- Postage stamp gum
- Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body
See also[edit]
- Gummy (disambiguation)
- Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
- Gumball
- Gumshoe
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