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Gamboge
Gamboge is most often extracted by tapping resin from various species of evergreen trees of the family Guttiferae (also known as Clusiaceae), most often of the ...
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Noun: gamboge tree. Low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered - Garcinia ...
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Gamboge - tree resin - bright transparent yellow used in Middle Ages Vermillion deep - bright, opaque red. Used by Romans. Alizarin lake - dye extracted from ...
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Products Gum or resin: The tree is valued because of the resinous sap, called gamboge, which exudes from incisions in the bark. This sap is used as a ...
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1. a. a gum resin used as the source of a yellow pigment and as a purgative. b. the pigment made from this resin. 2. gamboge tree any of several tropical Asian ...
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The Gamboge tree grows to a height of 50 feet, with a diameter of 12 inches, and the gum resin is extracted by incisions or by breaking off the leaves and shoots ...
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GAMBOGE TREE (noun) The noun GAMBOGE TREE has 1 sense: 1. low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used ...
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gamboge (countable and uncountable; plural gamboges). One of several species of trees of genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia. Resin of the ...
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The gamboge tree, Garcinia hanburyi, and a few other species, from Thailand exudes a gum resin that furnishes a yellow dye. Incisions are made in the bark that ...
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Use crop from a gamboge tree, native to Asian countries, to produce a lighter shade of yellow in turpentine. Turpentine is extracted by vigorously shaking sap ...
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