The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. Any of various hard resins obtained from trees of the genera Shorea, Balanocarpus, and Hopea, native to southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago and used in varnishes and lacquers.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Same as dammar-resin.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine
Word Usage
"Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant."