Gum
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A number of different things are called "gum":
- Gums, or gingiva - the soft tissue partly covering teeth
- Vegetable gums, natural gums:
- * Guar gum
- * Gum arabic
- * Xanthan gum
- Gum Springs, Arkansas, a town
- Trees:
- * Gum tree (Eucalyptus; Australia and cultivated in other warm areas)
- * Black gum (Tupelo, Nyssa; eastern North America)
- * Sweet-gum (Liquidambar; eastern North America and Asia)
- * Log gum
- Astronomy:
- * Gum (crater), on the Moon
- * Gum Nebula, an emission nebula
- * Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), Australian astronomer and namesake of the nebula
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