Gum

Gum or GUM may refer to:

Confectionary

• Chewing gum
• Functional chewing gum or Functional gum
• Bubble gum
• Wine gum
• Gumdrop
• Gum base
• Gum industry

Natural gums

• Gum (botany), any of a number of naturally occurring resinous materials in vegetative species
• Gum anima
• Gum arabic
• Cassia gum
• Dammar gum
• Gellan gum
• Guar gum
• Locust bean gum
• Spruce gum
• Xanthan gum

Trees and shrubs

• Gum tree or Eucalyptus
• Black tupelo or Black gum
• Blue gum
• Ghost gum
• Gum Cistus
• Log gum
• Red Gum
• Spotted gum
• Sweet-gum or Liquidambar

Astronomy

• Gum (crater), on the Moon
• Gum Nebula, an emission nebula
• Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), Australian astronomer

Geography

• Gum-Gum, a township in Malaysia
• Gum Springs, Arkansas
• White Gum Valley, Western Australia
• The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia

Fiction

• Mr. Gum, the central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
• Gum, a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
• Great Uncle Matthew, a character in Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Codes

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3-code for Guam
• IATA code for Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport

Other uses

• Gingiva, or gums, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
• Postage stamp gum
• Spirit gum
• Genitourinary medicine
• Glasgow University Magazine
• Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO), see Measurement uncertainty
• Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin, or Main Department Store, a large department store in Moscow, Russia

See also

• Gummy (disambiguation)
• Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand