单词 | calambac |
释义 | calambacn. An eastern name of Aloes-wood or Eagle-wood, produced by Aquilaria Agallocha, Roxb. (See agalloch n.)So all recent authorities on Indian Botany. Aloexylum, regarded as the source by earlier authors, is now given up. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > fragrant woods agalloch1543 rhodium1580 calambac1594 xylobalsamum1616 rosewood1633 eagle-wood1669 calambour1685 rhodian wood1721 santal1728 tambac1728 jacaranda1830 turanira-wood1884 1552 Barros' Decades d'Asia I. ix. 1 (transl. Yule) Campa, in the mountains of which grows the genuine aloes-wood, which the Moors of those parts call Calambuc.] 1594 Merry Knack in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VI. 571 Then will I have..Calambac and Cassia. 1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 417 Where the best Calamba-wood, or Palo d'Aquila, grows. 1690 Songs Costume (1849) 189 Calembuc combs in pulvil case. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Aloes The Calambou [later edd. calambo]..is brought in small bits of a very fragrant scent. 1871 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) I. C-13/1 Calambac, Calambao, Calambeg, also called Aloes wood, is the Agallochum of the ancients, and the Agilla or Eaglewood of the moderns. It is produced in Siam and Silhet by Aquilaria agallocha. 1883 G. Watt Econ. Products India vii. 23 Aquilaria Agallocha, Roxb., Thymelæaceæ Calambac. Agallochum or Aloe-Wood or Eagle-Wood... In the interior of old trees we found irregular masses of harder and darker coloured wood, which constitute the famous Eagle-wood..called..Kaya garu by the Malays, and Akyau by the Burmese. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1594 |
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