Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tragacanth \Trag"a*canth\, n. [L. tragacanthum tragacanth,
tragacantha the plant producing tragacanth, Gr. ? ? a he-goat
+ ? a thorn: cf. F. tragacanthe.]
A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub
({Astragalus gummifer}) of Western Asia, and other species of
Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or
filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly
swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a
substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called
also {gum tragacanth}.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Dracanth \Dra"canth\, n.
A kind of gum; -- called also {gum tragacanth}, or
{tragacanth}. See {Tragacanth}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tragacanth
n 1: a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing
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