OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24035

gamboge

/ɡæmˈbuːʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gomaguta • guta • gutagamba
Any of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.
Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ, a natural order of trees or shrubs belonging to the Dicotyledons (division Thalamifloræ), natives of the humid tropics of S. America. [...] Most of the pla…