gum ammoniac

English

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.

Synonyms

• ammoniacum

Translations

resin — see ammoniacum

Further reading

• Ammoniacum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia