Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several brittle aromatic yellow to red resins of recent or fossil origin, obtained from various tropical trees and used in certain varnishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hard, transparent, amber-like resin, the product of many different tropical trees, melting at a high temperature, and used in the manufacture of varnishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (
Trachylobium Hornemannianum ,Trachylobium verrucosum , andHymenæa Courbaril ), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
resinous exudation from various tropicaltrees used chiefly in makingvarnishes and printing ink.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Brass articles that have to be cleaned frequently should be covered with oil of turpentine, or thin English copal varnish.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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It forms a tree 150 to 200 feet in height, and produces a hard, brittle resin-like copal, which is used in varnish.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Crown Chakra: To aid in cleansing and opening the spiritual connection and communication of your crown chakra, you might enjoy making use of incenses such as copal, frankincense, juniper, myrrh and sage.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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[* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.
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(* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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They burn sage and copal in rituals that are disconnected from their origins—the drum circles take place in the shadows of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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The case contains a tree, and the branches of the tree are festooned with hundreds of passenger pigeons cast in orange copal (a million or so years old, an immature form of amber).
"There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..." greygirlbeast 2009
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They burn sage and copal in rituals that are disconnected from their origins—the drum circles take place in the shadows of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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They burn sage and copal in rituals that are disconnected from their origins—the drum circles take place in the shadows of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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During Day of the Dead, altars are piled high with these offerings, as well as with food, drink and copal incense to guide the visiting spirits towards their home.
Funeral Trappings 2011
bilby commented on the word copal
Precursor to copium?
February 5, 2024