Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dammar-resin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See dammar.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of dammer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine

Etymologies

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From Malay damar, from Proto-Malayic *damar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaʀ.

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Examples

  • Strips of calliandra provide good shade for seedlings of plantation species such as damar (Agathis loranthifolia).

    5 Products and Applications 1983

  • Mulyono prefers to spend her vacation, or refreshing time as she calls it, collecting new samples of damar, a substance found in certain trees in Indonesia that she uses in her research.

    Women Scientists Close Gender Gap in Indonesia 2011

  • Mulyono prefers to spend her vacation, or refreshing time as she calls it, collecting new samples of damar, a substance found in certain trees in Indonesia that she uses in her research.

    Women Scientists Close Gender Gap in Indonesia 2011

  • It is safe to say, from what I know now, it is the damar I used that contributed most to the problem.

    Drying Time in Oil James Gurney 2009

  • Normally when you clean a painting, you take off the smoky, dirty, orange and brown layers and the yellowed damar varnish, and the painting gets more of a pure blue look.

    Daybreak Blues James Gurney 2009

  • Seram's moist lowland forests are being exploited by logging companies, primarily for their valuable damar trees (Agathis).

    Seram rain forests 2008

  • Currently, the wet evergreen lowland forests in the northwest of Halmahera are exploited by logging companies, primarily for the valuable damar trees (Agathis).

    Halmahera rain forests 2008

  • As a rule, damar and the different groups of specially formulated synthetic varnishes are planned for precise use and equally precise removal.

    'Crimes Against the Cubists': An Exchange Golding, John 1983

  • Blue mountain crests soar above dark realms of virgin forest, where the sombre conifers exude the precious _damar_, which glues itself to the red trunks in shining lumps often of twenty pounds 'weight, or sinks deeply into the soft soil, from whence the solidified gum needs excavation.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • The _damar_, pounded and poured into palm-leaf tubes, serves for the torches of the fishermen, and for the lighting of the dusky native houses.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

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