karaya gum

1. 1.

   exudate of an Asian tree; used for finishing textiles and to thicken foodstuffs and cosmetics

   Synonymssterculia gum

   Broadergum

Questions about karaya gum

What does karaya gum mean?

karaya gum means "exudate of an Asian tree; used for finishing textiles and to thicken foodstuffs and cosmetics".

What is another word for karaya gum?

Close synonyms include sterculia gum. 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 karaya gum a common word?

karaya gum 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.