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DR. NICHOLAS POLUNIN has suggested that I should direct the attention of botanists and others to the ancient provenance of a word which appears to mean fundamentally ‘the juice of a plant that is used for chewing’, as a chewing gum.
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STEFANSSON, V. A Word Common to the Natives of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Brazil. Nature 178, 1008 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781008c0
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