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locust bean gum

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English

Syllables
lo-cust bean gum
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob (locust beans) and used as a food additive; chemically, it is a galactomannan.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

locust bean gums (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

E410

Synonyms

carob gum carubin tragasol

Questions

What does locust bean gum mean?
A vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob (locust beans) and used as a food additive; chemically, it is a galactomannan.

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