gum butea

1. 1.

   dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent

   Synonymsbutea gumbutea kinoBengal kino

   Broadergum

Questions about gum butea

What does gum butea mean?

gum butea means "dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent".

What is another word for gum butea?

Close synonyms include butea gum, butea kino, Bengal kino. 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 butea a common word?

gum butea 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.