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Tragacanth Moderate

Tragacanth has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing

2

A polysaccharide gum, extracted from several species of leguminous plants of the genus Astragalus, formerly used medicinally and now as a food additive. Also more fully gum tragacanth.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
gum
Rhyming Words
nth anth tenth month synth xanth panth plinth saunth teenth acanth cleanth jacinth seventh strenth nepenth corinth greenth absinth dozenth
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