Definition of Dammar resin

1. Noun. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine.

Exact synonyms: Damar, Dammar, Gum Dammar
Generic synonyms: Natural Resin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dammar Resin

damelopre
damelopres
dames
damewort
dameworts
damfool
damiana
damianas
damiaoite
daminozide
damlike
damma
dammable
dammar
dammar pine
dammar resin (current term)
dammara
dammarane
dammaras
dammars
dammas
damme
dammed
dammer
dammers
damming
dammit
dammit to hell
dammits
damn

Literary usage of Dammar resin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"... dammar resin may be detected in kauri resin in the following manner. An ethereal or chloroformic solution of kauri resin is not precipitated by alcohol, ..."

2. American Druggist (1890)
"The proportions of caoutchouc and dammar resin ,are kept as small as possible consistent with securing a good adherent mass; the lanolin and tallow ..."

3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"A kind of dammar resin, described by ... One of the sources of dammar resin. Da in rnar an. A white resin which, ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1899)
"Large pieces of the dammar resin, however, become rarer from year to year, ... The genuine dammar resin forms irregular colorless or pale yellow transparent ..."

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