Gum

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Gum or GUM may refer to:

Types of gum

  • Adhesive
  • Bubble gum
  • Chewing gum
  • Natural gum, viscous materials of natural origin
  • Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
    • Gum arabic, made from the sap of Acacia senegal, an Old World tree species
    • Gum copal, resin produced from the sap of Daniellia, a genus of Afrotropical forest trees
    • Gum ghatti, made from the sap of Anogeissus latifolia, an Asian tree species
    • Gum guaicum, substance produced from Guaiacum officinale, a neotropical tree species
    • Gum guar, made from the seeds of guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, an Old World annual legume
    • Gum karaya, made from the sap of Sterculia urens, an Asian tree species
    • Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
    • Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
    • Locust bean gum, made from the seeds of carob, Ceratonia siliqua
    • Xanthan gum, a common food thickener and stabilizer
  • Gum base, the provides the basic textural and masticatory properties of chewing and bubble gums
  • Gum metal, titanium alloy with high elasticity
  • Postage stamp gum, substance applied to the back of a stamp to enable it to adhere to a letter
  • Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body

People

  • Gum (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
  • Gum Mo-jam, military leader
  • Allen Gum (born 1969), American college baseball coach
  • Jay Watson (born 1991), a.k.a. GUM, Australian musician

Places

Science

Entertainment

  • "The Gum", episode of the comedy television show Seinfield
  • Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
  • Mr. Gum, central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
  • Gum (character), a playable character from the Jet Set Radio video game franchise
  • Gums, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
  • Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
  • Gum, a character from the 2016 adult animated film Sausage Party
  • Gum Girl, a protagonist The Gumazing Gum Girl! book series by Rhode Montijo
  • Gums (film), a 1976 horror film
  • Gum, a 2017 book by Nancy Willard

Other uses

  • GUM (department store), in Moscow, Russia
  • Global United Media, Indian film company
  • Gum Air, an airline in Paramaribo, Suriname
  • Gum languages of New Guinea
  • Gum tree, any of various related species of Eucalypt trees
  • Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, known as the GUM, a metrology guide pertaining to measurement uncertainty
  • GUM, a business unit of the Sunstar Group which designs and manufactures dental cleaning tools like toothbrushes and gum stimulators
  • Mother Gum, a character who is Princess Bubblegum’s parent in the animated series Adventure Time

See also

  • Gummy (disambiguation)
  • Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
  • Gumball (disambiguation)
  • Gumshoe (disambiguation)
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