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n. - Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.

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  • Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant.
  • The dammar is a kind of turpentine or resin from a species of pine, and used for the same purposes to which that and pitch are applied.
  • The ebony, the dammar, the tree that yields the finest dragon's blood in the world, all abound here.
  • Galela men had established themselves as collectors of gum-dammar, with which they made torches for the supply of the Ternate market.
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