gum benzoin

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   gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

   Synonymsbenzoinbenjamingum benjaminasa dulcis

   Broadergum resin

Questions about gum benzoin

What does gum benzoin mean?

gum benzoin means "gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation".

What is another word for gum benzoin?

Close synonyms include benzoin, benjamin, gum benjamin, asa dulcis. 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 benzoin a common word?

gum benzoin 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.