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NALT Full

Preferred term

plant gums

Type

Chemical
Product

Definition

A comprehensive term for nonvolatile viscous plant exudates, which either dissolve or swell up in contact with water. Many substances referred to as gums, such as pine and spruce gum, are actually oleoresins.
Source: Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

polysaccharides

Narrower concepts

Related concepts

Synonyms

tree gums

In other languages

gomas

Spanish

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/4063

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