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from The Century Dictionary.

noun A name in the Philippine Islands of Dammara Philippinensis, a coniferous tree yielding dammar-resin. Also called dammar. See Dammara and Philippine dammar.

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Thirty jars of oil for galagala, [2] at a peso and a half: forty-five pesos.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

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mollusque commented on the word galagala

The galagala or piayo (Agathis orantifolia Salisb.) produces a resin which is used for burning, for lighting and for the manufacture of varnishes.
--Report of the Philippine Commission to the President, 1901, vol. 3, p. 282

April 6, 2008