NOUN
- gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)
How To Use gum acacia In A Sentence
- It is not entirely soluble in water, to which it imparts less viscidity than ordinary Gum Acacia.
- But in all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusanus acuminatus is common and produces the quandang nut (or kernel) in such abundance that it and gum acacia may in time become articles of commerce in Australia. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
