dammar

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dammar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dammar \Dam"mar\, Dammara \Dam"ma*ra\, n. [Jav. & Malay. damar.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis  orientalis
         syn. Dammara orientalis), yielding dammar.
        [1913 Webster]

dammar - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dammar
      n 1: any of various hard resins from trees of the family
           Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the
           amboyna pine [syn: dammar, gum dammar, damar, dammar resin
           ]