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Definition of Mesquite gum
1. Noun. A gum obtained from mesquite pods; resembles gum arabic.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesquite Gum
Literary usage of Mesquite gum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"Gams are also obtained from other genera of the Leguminosae, as mesquite gum,
from Prosopis juliflora, of the southern United States and Mexico. ..."
2. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy for Students of Pharmacy, and by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"Gums are also obtained from other genera of the Leguminosae, as mesquite gum,
from Prosopis juliflora. of the southern United States and Mexico. ..."
3. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"rice starch, is more frequently mixed with inferior gums, especially the Mesquite
gum. The tears of mesquite gum are nearly smooth, light yellowish-brown to ..."
4. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1872)
"This year's crop will be about as large. Mesquite-gum. ... says the mesquite-gum
of that region is almost identical with gum arabic, having been in use ..."
5. The Science Record: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery edited by Alfred Ely Beach (1873)
"mesquite gum. MR. ... Agricultural and Industrial Association of Western Texas,
says the mesquite gum of that region is almost identical with gum arable, ..."
6. The Science Record edited by Alfred Ely Beach (1873)
"mesquite gum. MR. ... Agricultural and Industrial Association of Western Texas,
says the mesquite gum of that region is almost identical with gum arabic, ..."
7. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1879)
"mesquite gum agrees not with the fine description, but with the inferior sorts
of gum arabic, and is sometimes used in America,1 since 1854, ..."
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