OriginFrom Malay damar.
Compare Middle English dambre (“a kind of resin”).
- countable, uncountableA large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis.
- countable, uncountableA clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) and Symplocos (family Symplocaceae), used in varnishes and inks
- countable, uncountableAny of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (family Araucariaceae) and Hopea (family Dipterocarpaceae), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.
Formsdamars(plural) · dammar(alternative) · dammara(alternative) · dammer(alternative) · Damars(plural)