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TRAGACANTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tragacanth mean?
• TRAGACANTH (noun)
The noun TRAGACANTH has 1 sense:
1. a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing
Familiarity information: TRAGACANTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("tragacanth" is a kind of...):
gum (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)
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