| 单词 | white dammar |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite dammar The name of various resins obtained from different trees growing in the East Indies, New Guinea, and New Zealand; esp. the cat's-eye resin ( East India dammar) from Dammara orientalis, used instead of pitch for caulking ships, etc., and the Kauri-gum from D. australis of New Zealand; both these are used for making varnish. white dammar, or dammar pitch, is obtained from Vateria indica; black dammar from Canarium strictum. (Also dammar-gum, dammar-resin, gum dammar.) Also (in full dammar pine n., dammar tree n. any tree yielding dammar resin. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [noun] > gum (resin) > specific myrrheOE balsamc1000 galbanec1000 draganta1300 sandragon1334 gum arabica1350 storaxa1382 galbanum1382 asafœtidaa1398 cinnabara1398 guttaa1398 frankincensea1400 labdanuma1400 opopanaxa1400 gum-arabicc1400 sarcocolc1400 ammoniacc1420 gristle?1537 ladanum1551 dragon's blood1555 benzoin1558 styrax1558 tragacanth1558 gum tragacanth1562 amber1565 anime1577 laser1578 benjamin1580 sarcocolla1584 bdellium1585 sagapenum1597 liquidambar1598 red gum1614 gamboge1615 laudanum1616 gum ammoniac1627 male incense1647 sandarac1655 flesh-glue1659 adragant1696 dammar1698 sagapen1712 gum-dragon1718 courbaril1753 gum-senegal1760 Jew's frankincense1760 guggul1813 angico1821 gum-kino1830 butea gum1832 piney varnish1832 Kuteera gum1838 acaroid1839 bumbo1839 thus1842 gum-juniper1844 piney dammar1846 acacine1855 mochras1856 talha1857 copalm balsam1858 gum benjamin1859 wattle-gum1863 Senegal gum1867 Suakin1874 Barbary gum1875 oliva1882 ledon1885 jatoba1890 mimosa gum1890 xylan1894 gum accroides1909 karaya1916 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > dammar tree amboyna wood1738 kauri1823 dammar tree1832 wax-pine1891 c1440 Secrees 165 A dragme and a half of good muske, & a dragme of dambre, and þre dragmes of þe tree of aloes.] 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 37 The..Planks are sowed together..and calked with Dammar (a sort of Rosin taken out of the sea). 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxviii. 73 Damar, a Gum that is used for making Pitch and Tar for the Use of Shipping. 1805 Trans. Soc. Arts 23 412 Resins..called dammer in India..the produce of various trees. 1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 802 Agathis Salisb. Dammar Pine. 1832 W. Roxburgh et al. Flora Indica (new ed.) II. 603 In the Bednore country, it [sc. Vateria indica]is called the Dammar tree by the English, and blossoms during the hot season. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 802 This genus [sc. Agathis] is formed of the Dammar Pines. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 229 Liquid storax is thought to be yielded by the Dammar Pine. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 347 The Canarum strictum, or black dammer tree. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 130 He has taken my bale of dammer and spice I won beyond the seas. 1959 J. C. T. Uphof Dict. Econ. Plants 12/1 Agathis alba Foxw. (syn. Dammara alba Lam.). White Dammar Pine. white dammar white dammar n. a yellowish-white resin obtained from the tree Vateria indica (family Dipterocarpaceae) of southern India. ΚΠ 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 159/1 White Dammar.—Sumatra. 1911 Spatula Apr. 392/1 English vermilion dry, if mixed in white dammar varnish makes a splendid red for oil cloth. 2006 Biotropica 38 151/1 The presently studied five forest fragments harbor economically important tree species such as V. indica (for white dammar & timber). < as lemmas |
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