NATURAL RESIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural resin mean? 

• NATURAL RESIN (noun)
  The noun NATURAL RESIN has 1 sense:

1. a plant exudate

  Familiarity information: NATURAL RESIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL RESIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant exudate

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Nouns denoting substances

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"):

cannabin; cannabis resin (a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana)

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)

sandarac; sandarach (a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes)

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)