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  • noun. Any of various hard resins obtained chiefly in Southeast Asia from trees in the families Araucariaceae, Burseraceae, and Dipterocarpaceae, for use in varnishes and lacquers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as dammar-resin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
  • noun. a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis orientalis syn. Dammara orientalis), yielding dammar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative form of dammara.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine
  • Word Usage
    "Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant."
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