gum ammoniac

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Etymology

From Middle English gomme armoniacum, gomme armonyak, gum armoniac.

Noun

gum ammoniac (countable and uncountable, plural gums ammoniac)

  1. A gum-resin exuded from the several perennial herbs in the genus Ferula of the umbel family (Apiaceae).
    • 1656, “To the Reader”, in Nature the Best Physician: A Matter of Fact, Evinced from a Most Remarkable Variolous Case, Communicated by the Learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And Now Set Forth in a Poetical Narrative, by David Maxwell, M. D., London, page 2:
      Hence was every Draught impregnated with Diaſcordium , and a Spoonful of a Solution of Gum Ammoniac taken occaſionally.
    • 1908, Nature, page 256:
      […] an account of the gums ammoniac of Morocco and the Cyrenaica. The latter, which is the gum ammoniac described by Dioscorides, is referred to Ferula marmarica.
    • 1917, Kew Bulletin, page 258:
      Particulars of other Gums Ammoniac are given in K.B., 1907, p. 375.

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