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NATURAL RESIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant exudate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("natural resin" is a kind of...):
plant product (a product made from plant material)
resin; rosin (any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural resin"):
wood tar (any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood)
gum resin (a mixture of resin and gum)
oleoresin (a naturally occurring mixture of a resin and an essential oil; obtained from certain plants)
mastic (an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes)
colophony (translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments)
damar; dammar; dammar resin; gum dammar (any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine)
copal (a brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes)
amber (a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry)
cannabin; cannabis resin (a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana)
camphor (a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment)
asafetida; asafoetida (the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic)
anime; gum anime (any of various resins or oleoresins)
acaroid resin; accaroid resin; accroides; accroides gum; accroides resin; gum accroides (an alcohol-soluble resin from Australian trees; used in varnishes and in manufacturing paper)
scammony (resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia)
storax (a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax)
guaiacum (medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree)
sandarac; sandarach (a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes)
