| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A fragrant wood; agalloch.[Websters]. | |
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Date "CALAMBAC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CALAMBAC
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] Aloes-wood, xyloe-aloes, a drug, which is the product of a tree growing in China and some of the Indian isles. It is of a light spungy texture, very porous, and the pores so filled with a soft fragrant resin, that it may be indented by the fingers and chewed like mastich. It is also called tambac. The two coarser kinds are called lignum aloes, and calambour. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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