Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dammar-resin .
from 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 (Bot.) a tree of the Moluccas (
Agathis orientalis syn.Dammara orientalis ), yielding dammar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
dammara .
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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When a quantity of it has fallen in the same place it appears like a rock, and thence, they say, or more probably from its hardness, it is called dammar batu; by which name it is distinguished from the dammar kruyen.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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The dammar is a kind of turpentine or resin from a species of pine, and used for the same purposes to which that and pitch are applied.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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Of the various sorts of tree producing dammar, some are said to be valuable as timber, particularly the species called dammar laut, not mentioned by Rumphius, which is employed at Pulo Pinang for frame timbers of ships, beams, and knees.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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Sometimes the dammar accumulates in large masses of ten or twenty pounds weight, either attached to the trunk, or found buried in the ground at the foot of the trees.
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Galela men had established themselves as collectors of gum-dammar, with which they made torches for the supply of the Ternate market.
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It exports tin in large quantities, gutta-percha collected in the interior by the aborigines, coffee, which promises to become an important production, buffalo hides, gum dammar, and gharroo.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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Here also grew the fan-leafed palm, whose small, nearly entire leaves are used to make the dammar torches, and to form the water-buckets in universal use.
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One had its beautiful head all defiled by pitch from a dammar torch; another had been so long dead that its stomach was turning green.
knitandpurl commented on the word dammar
"A haggard almsman can drag a handcart and hawk glass jars (racks and racks): agar-agar — dammar lac and balsam sap (half a franc, a flask)."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 20
May 20, 2010