Mr. ROBERTSON: Bdellium, it's a - it's a gum-like tree resin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barenaked Ladies: Same Quirk, Younger Crowd] Reference

If the problem was that they ended up being too gumy, my Italian grandma makes the best potato gnocci ever and she always says you should add as little flour as possible, otherwise you´ll end up with gum-like gnocci.    From Wordnik.com.  [artichoke ravioli with tomatoes | smitten kitchen] Reference

Moist gum-like tears drop from this mournful tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

That's a bubble gum-like flavor that I'm not such a big fan of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltiblogs] Reference

The quantity of gum-like matter which it contains, gives too much ferment to the beer, and renders it liable to spoil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference

The first commercial chewing gum, made of the gum-like resin that formed on spruce trees when they were cut, was sold in the United States in the early 1800's.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This fraud may readily be detected by evaporating a quantity of the liquor in a table-spoon over a candle, to dryness; the sugar will thus be rendered obvious, in the form of a gum-like substance, when the spirit is volatilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference

Initially you should taste your beautiful homemade bread, followed by a sweet taste which is the remaining starch being turned into sugars by an enzyme in your saliva, and then, after almost everything else has gone, a chewing gum-like mass forms in your mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The grain is by mere torrefaction converted into a gum-like substance, wholly soluble in water, which renders the beer more liable to pass into the acetous fermentation than the common brown malt is capable of doing; because the latter, if prepared from good barley, contains a portion of saccharine matter, of which the patent malt is destitute.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference

"For each silkworm has coated the inside of his little home with a gum-like substance that makes it waterproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

Pectin is a gum-like carbohydrate that helps jam set, and is sorely lacking in strawberries, which means those toiling in the strawberry jam world have to make the tricky call between adding a few pectin-rich gooseberries or using pectin-enhanced jam sugar which is, quite frankly, cheating.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The name, ma'ikadicakĕ, comes from kadi'cakĕ, or gum-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden] Reference

A white, volatile, tough, gum-like, translucent substance, with a peculiar pungent taste and smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference