The wartime demand for marine paints made tung an important crop.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All related terms of 'tung'
Kuan-tung
a strategic territory of NE China, at the S tip of the Liaodong Peninsula of Manchuria : leased forcibly by Russia in 1898; taken over by Japan in 1905; occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 and subsequently returned to China on the condition of shared administration ; made part of Liaoning province by China in 1954. Area: about 3400 sq km (1300 sq miles)
Tan-tung
→ Dandong
tung oil
fast-drying oil obtained from the seeds of a central Asian tree
tung tree
a subtropical tree ( Aleurites fordii ) of the spurge family, whose seeds yield tung oil
Mao Tse-tung
1893-1976; Chin . Communist leader : chairman of the People's Republic of China (1949-59) & of its Communist Party (1949-76)
Chinese wood oil
a fast-drying oil obtained from the seeds of a central Asian euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites fordii , used in paints , varnishes , etc, as a drying agent and to give a water-resistant finish
Dongting
a lake in S China , in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze ; rice-growing in winter . Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)