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Definition of Agathis dammara
1. Noun. Native to the Moluccas and Philippines; a source of dammar resin.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agathis Dammara
Literary usage of Agathis dammara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The genus Agathis (Dammara) is confined to tropical and subtropical regions of
Indo-Malaysia and Australasia. The Philippine Islands mark the northern limit ..."
2. Handbook of Pharmacognosy by Otto Augustus Wall (1917)
"0. and H. A spontaneous concrete exudation from agathis dammara, a tree of the
East Indian islands, and Agathis australis, a tree of New Zealand; ..."
3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead MacFarlane (1918)
"Thus the leaves on vigorous shoots of A. imbricata recall greatly those on seedling
shoots of Agathis (Dammara), while histologically they show not a few ..."