Definition of Dammar

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 Resin, Gum Dammar
Generic synonyms: Natural Resin

Definition of Dammar

1. n. 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.

Definition of Dammar

1. a hard resin [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dammar

1. A resin resembling copal, obtained from various species of Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) in the East Indies; used, dissolved in chloroform, for mounting microscopic specimens. Origin: Hind. Damar, resin (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dammar

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

Literary usage of Dammar

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

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Rohde MSS GUM RESINS—dammar. dammar and wood oil are boiled to form a varnish for house beams, doors, &c., aad painters add dammar to oil, to render oil ..."

2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"In the case of kauri resin only vegetable debris and mineral matters are left, but if dammar be present a large amount of chloroform- soluble resin is left ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"If a bright edge be required to the cell, it is only necessary to paint it with a thin solution of balsam or dammar, and no varnish ring on the cell is ..."

4. Analysis of Resins, Balsams and Gum-resins: The Chemistry and Pharmacognosis by Karl Dieterich (1901)
"East Indian Sumatra dammar is in the form of stalactitic granules and lumps, ... When chewed, dammar breaks down to a white powder, and it melts at 1SO°C. ..."

5. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1885)
"51) that at Wurzburg the ordinary dammar Tarnish of artists is employed. 356 a. Cedar Oil and dammar.1—A solution of gum dammar in hot oil of cedar-wood has ..."

6. 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)
"dammar. A Malay word signifying resin which drops from a tree and is inflammable. See D. resin. D., aromatic. A kind of dammar resin, described by ..."

7. Practical Microscopy: A Course of Normal Histology for Students and by Maurice Norton Miller (1887)
"I believe a clean dammar mount, with circular co ver, neatly labeled, ... A ring of dammar, thinned with turpentine so as to flow readily from the brush, ..."

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