Crossword clues for gamboge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gamboge \Gam*boge"\, n. A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. [Written also camboge.]
Note: There are several kinds of gamboge, but all are derived from species of Garcinia, a genus of trees of the order Guttifer[ae]. The best Siam gamboge is thought to come from Garcinia Hanburii. Ceylon gamboge is from G. Morella. G. pictoria, of Western India, yields gamboge, and also a kind of oil called gamboge butter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of gum-resin from Southeast Asia, used in Europe as a yellow dye and as a purgative in medicine, 1630, in widely varying spellings, from Modern Latin cambogium, ultimately from the source of the place name Cambodia.
Wiktionary
a. Of a deep yellow colour. n. 1 One of several species of trees of genus ''Garcinia'' found in South and Southeastern Asia. 2 The resin of the gamboge tree. 3 A deep yellow colour.
WordNet
n. a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative
a strong yellow color [syn: lemon, lemon yellow, maize]
Wikipedia
Gamboge ( , , or ) is a partially transparent deep saffron to mustard yellow pigment. It is used to dye Buddhist monks' robes because the color is a deep tone of saffron, the traditional color used for the robes of Theravada Buddhist monks.
Usage examples of "gamboge".
She wondered that the gamboge yellow coat and orange breeches he wore did not strike her blind.
The vanishing sun, whose disc was now a quarter concealed behind the impenetrable blackness of the Wall, had dyed the sky with gamboge and cerise, vermilion and lurid violet.
Gamboge is a powerful drastic, hydragogue cathartic, which is apt to produce nausea and vomiting.
Once Kuri had decided the effect he wanted, he worked quickly, tapping out crescents of citrine and gamboge from the solar orb.
The Gamboge tree grows to a height of 50 feet, with a diameter of 12 inches, and the gum resin is extracted by incisions or by breaking off the leaves and shoots of the trees, the juice which is a milky yellow resinous gum, resides in the ducts of the bark and is gatheredin vessels, and left to thicken and become hardened.
He learned to use and prepare mineral colours and gums -- cinnabar, manganese dioxide, calcined umber, and sticky, messy gamboge.