guar gum

1. 1.

   a gum from seeds of the guar plant; used to thicken foods and as sizing for paper and cloth

   Broadergum

Questions about guar gum

What does guar gum mean?

guar gum means "a gum from seeds of the guar plant; used to thicken foods and as sizing for paper and cloth".

Is guar gum a common word?

guar gum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.