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Definition of Tragacanth
1. Noun. A gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing.
Definition of Tragacanth
1. n. A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
Definition of Tragacanth
1. Noun. a polysaccharide gum, extracted from several species of leguminous plants of the genus ''Astragalus'', used as a food additive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tragacanth
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Medical Definition of Tragacanth
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Literary usage of Tragacanth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"Gum tragacanth. Gum tragacanth is the gummy exudation from Astragalus ...
According to Giraud, gum tragacanth usually contains about 60 per cent, ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1885)
"Gum tragacanth. Gum tragacanth is the gummy exudation from ... tragacanth is
usually white or yellowish (having sometimes been bleached by chlorine), ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann, Joseph Merritt Matthews (1898)
"According to Giraud, gum tragacanth usually contains about 60 per cent, ...
tragacanth is usually white or yellowish (having sometimes been bleached by ..."
4. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1891)
"The imports of tragacanth into the United States were, in 1888, ... tragacanth has
the appearance of twisted ribands; is, as already stated, ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1859)
"Additional confirmation respecting the season in which tragacanth is forced ...
The statement that wounding the plant favours the exudation of tragacanth, ..."
6. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1831)
"Formula for a Syrup of Gum tragacanth.—M. Emile Mouchon, fils, Pharma- cien at
Lyons, has offered a recipe for the preparation of a syrup of gum tragacanth ..."
7. The London Medical Gazette (1837)
"tragacanth is a natural exudation from the stem of the before- mentioned plants.
The cause of the exudation of this as of other gums, is thus explained by ..."
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