gum albanum

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   a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida

   Synonymsgalbanum

   Broadergum

Questions about gum albanum

What does gum albanum mean?

gum albanum means "a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida".

What is another word for gum albanum?

Close synonyms include galbanum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gum albanum a common word?

gum albanum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.