Gamboge

Quick meaning: Gamboge is a noun meaning Any of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.

Meaning

Any of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.

More Meanings

1. The resin of the gamboge tree; a preparation of the resin used as a pigment or for medicinal purposes.
2. A deep yellow colour.
3. Of a deep yellow colour.

Example Sentences

Chestnut wood, dyed with saffron, or old chestnut, dyed with gambooge, imitates dark mahogany.

Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.

Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ, a natural order of trees or shrubs belonging to the Dicotyledons (division Thalamifloræ), natives of the humid tropics of S. America. [...] Most of the plants have acrid properties, and yield a yellow resin. Among the chief and common plants of the order are Gambooge (q.v.), Mangosteen fruit (Garcinia Mangostana), [...]

That the papers already communicated on this subject might be rendered more complete, we have now added thereto a brief account of such other dyeing substances as are in general use. [...] Dyes of animal origin, catechus, gamboges, and other similar products are excluded. [...] gamboge and dragon's blood can scarce merit the title of dye-stuffs.

Word Forms

• gamboges
• gambooge

Synonyms for gamboge

Depending on context, synonyms include lemon, maize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lemon, maize, camboge, garcinia, gambier, gambir.

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