dammar resin

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pineSynonyms: dammargum dammardamardammar resin
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis, or Dammara australis), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie.] [1913 Webster]
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