chicle

/chik-uhl/US // ˈtʃɪk əl //UK // (ˈtʃɪkəl) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a gumlike substance obtained from the latex of certain tropical American trees, as the sapodilla, used chiefly in the manufacture of chewing gum.

In 1885 the United States imported 929,959 pounds of chicle.
Within thirty days he must remove his wagons, his tractors, his chicle kettles, everything that belongs to him.
Someone had told him that Daego had made a quarter of a million dollars the previous year on chicle.
Burl had been with him once before, when they had trekked through the chicle forests of Guatemala in search of a lost Mayan city.
El chicle se saca del zapote y del chicozapote, rboles de Mjico y Amrica Central.