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tragacantha

tragacantha noun: the plant (of genus Astragalus) from which tragacanth gum is extracted.

Noun

tragacantha (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The plant (of genus Astragalus) from which tragacanth gum is extracted.

Questions about tragacantha

What does tragacantha mean?
Tragacantha means the plant (of genus Astragalus) from which tragacanth gum is extracted.
What part of speech is tragacantha?
Tragacantha is a noun.

Words near tragacantha in the dictionary

  1. traft
  2. Trafton
  3. Traftons
  4. traga
  5. tragacanth
  6. tragacantha
  7. tragacanthic
  8. tragacanthin
  9. tragacanths
  10. tragal
  11. tragalism

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