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• Mastic (plant resin) — Mastic tears Mastic (Greek: Μαστίχα) is a resin obtained from the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). In pharmacies and Nature shops it is called arabic gum (not to be confused with gum arabic) and Yemen gum . In Greece it is known as the tears of… …   Wikipedia

• hemicellulose — /hɛmiˈsɛljuloʊz/ (say hemee selyoohlohz), / oʊs/ (say ohs) noun any of an ill defined group of gummy plant polysaccharides, unrelated to cellulose, which hydrolyse to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose …  

• Rosales — ▪ plant order Introduction  the rose order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 9 families, 261 genera, and more than 7,700 species. Rosales, which is in the Rosid I group among the core eudicots, is related to other orders with members …   Universalium

• leaf fibre — ▪ plant anatomy       hard, coarse fibre obtained from leaves of monocotyledonous plants (flowering plants that usually have parallel veined leaves, such as grasses, lilies, orchids, and palms), used mainly for cordage. Such fibres, usually long… …   Universalium

• Sideroxylon — ▪ plant genus       genus of 75 species of woody trees and shrubs, within the sapodilla family (Sapotaceae), native to mainly warmer regions of North and South America. The plants typically have gummy or milky sap and extremely hard wood. The… …   Universalium

• List of My Little Pony characters — This is a list of characters from the long running My Little Pony toy franchise. The My Little Pony franchise first debuted in the year 1400 B.C., the creation of American illustrator and designer Bonnie Zacherle. Together with sculptor Charles… …   Wikipedia

• gum — 1. The dried exuded sap from a number of trees and shrubs, forming an amorphous brittle mass; it usually forms a mucilaginous solution in water and is often used as a suspending agent in liquid preparations of insoluble drugs. [L. gummi] 2.… …   Medical dictionary

• Grindelia — noun large genus of coarse gummy herbs of western North and Central America • Syn: ↑genus Grindelia • Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Jujube (confectionery) — Jujubes redirects here. For the Chinese Date plant, see Jujube. : Jubé is another word for rood screen.Jujube (can be pronounced as IPA|/Ju Ju Bee/, IPA|/Ju Joobe/ or IPA|/Joob Joobe/), or jube, is the name of several types of candy, varying in… …   Wikipedia

• gum — I [[t]gʌm[/t]] n. v. gummed, gum•ming 1) any of various viscid, amorphous exudations from plants, hardening on exposure to air and soluble in or forming a viscid mass with water 2) any of various similar exudations, as resin 3) pri a sticky,… …   From formal English to slang

• Frugivore — A frugivore is an animal that feeds primarily or, in some cases, exclusively on fruit. This method of feeding can be more efficient than consuming the stem, roots, or other vegetative portions of a plant, due to higher concentrations of sugars,… …   Wikipedia