Gum

Gum or GUM may refer to:

Substances

• Adhesive
  • Postage stamp gum
  • Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body

Edibles and associated products

• Bubble gum
• Chewing gum
• Gum base

Biology

In animals

• Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth

In plants

• Various natural gums including:
  • Gum arabic, made from the sap of species Acacia senegal of the acacia tree
  • Gum copal, a resin produced from the sap of the forest tree Daniella
  • Gum ghatti, made from the sap of Anogeissus latifolia tree
  • Gum guar, made from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Guar, an annual legume
  • Gum karaya, made from the sap of Sterculia urens tree
  • Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
  • Locust bean gum, made from the seeds of Ceratonia siliqua
  • Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
  • Gum Tragacanth, made from the sap of Astragalus gummifer shrub, and other acacias

People

• Allen Gum, American college baseball coach
• Gum (footballer), Brazilian footballer
• Jay Watson, a.k.a. GUM, Australian musician

Culture

• Glasgow University Magazine

Fictional characters

• 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

Places

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

Other uses

• GUM (department store), a large department store in Moscow, Russia
• Gum languages of New Guinea
• Genitourinary medicine
• Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO), see Measurement uncertainty
• Guam International Airport (IATA airport code: GUM)

See also

• Gummy (disambiguation)
• Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
• Gumball
• Gumshoe
• All pages beginning with "Gum"
• All pages with a title containing Gum