gamboge
Americannoun
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Also a gum resin from various Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, especially G. hanburyi, used as a yellow pigment and as a cathartic.
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yellow or yellow-orange.
noun
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a gum resin used as the source of a yellow pigment and as a purgative
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the pigment made from this resin
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any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
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a strong yellow colour
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gamboge
1625–35; < New Latin gambog- (stem of gambogium ), variant of cambog-, after Cambodia
Vocabulary lists containing gamboge
Yellow
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In a palette of chartreuse, ocher, cinnamon and gamboge, Ito overlaid uncommon shapes, such as a rectangle rounded and pinched at the top like a loaf of Wonder Bread, into compositions of preternatural calm.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
Heliotrope, gamboge, umber: the names of colours are as luscious as the hues themselves.
From Nature ● Nov. 15, 2016
It's then that you will see the Gremlins Green and gamboge and gold Male and female and neuter Gremlins both young and old.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in case Esther isn't enough, there is a herd of elephants painted blue, green, yellow, lavender and gamboge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paris, an English physician, had earlier reported that these pills consisted of aloes and jalap; the committee decided on aloes, with small amounts of colocynth and gamboge, as the purgatives of choice.
From Old English Patent Medicines in America by George B. Griffenhagen
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