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Dammara   Listen
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Dammara, Dammar  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.
Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis orientalis syn. Dammara orientalis), yielding dammar.






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"Dammara" Quotes from Famous Books



... the midnight carouse, Lingard seeing them drunk under the table before going on board, himself unaffected by any amount of liquor. Many tried to follow him and find that land of plenty for gutta-percha and rattans, pearl shells and birds' nests, wax and gum-dammar, but the little Flash could outsail every craft in those seas. A few of them came to grief on hidden sandbanks and coral reefs, losing their all and barely escaping with life from the cruel grip of this sunny and smiling sea; others got discouraged; and for many years the green and peaceful-looking ...
— Almayer's Folly - A Story of an Eastern River • Joseph Conrad



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