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Definition of Dammar pine
1. Noun. Any of various trees of the genus Agathis; yield dammar resin.
Group relationships: Agathis, Genus Agathis
Terms within: Kauri
Specialized synonyms: Agathis Australis, Kauri, Kaury, Agathis Alba, Agathis Dammara, Amboina Pine, Amboyna Pine, Agathis Robusta, Dundathu Pine, Queensland Kauri, Smooth Bark Kauri, Agathis Lanceolata, Red Kauri
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dammar Pine
Literary usage of Dammar pine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The leaf is precisely that of the dammar pine, but the Tenasserim tree is not
known to yield any dammar. The timber of the Archipelago tree is represented ..."
2. English Forests and Forest Trees, Historical, Legendary, and Descriptive (1853)
"contains in its humid and pestilential retreats, which conceal themselves from
man among the woods of the dammar pine, the elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"It is distinguished from the dammar pine by its narrower and more acute leaves,
and by ita more rapid mode of growth. ..."
4. The Annals of Horticulture (1848)
"... Lambert \ (southern dammar pine). — Leaves sessile, crowded, rigid, somewhat
wavy, shining like those of the box-tree, much broader at the base than ..."
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