Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dammar"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

{Dammar pine}, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas ({Agathis, or
Dammara, orientalis}), yielding dammar.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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