Also Suakim. The name of a port on the Red Sea used as the distinctive epithet of a variety of gum arabic exported thence.
1874. Flückiger & Hanbury, Pharmacographia, 210. Suakin Gum, Talca or Talha Gum … is remarkable for its brittleness.
1886. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., III. 409.
