pontianac

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata. countable,uncountable
    — A firm of manufacturers to whom a sample of the Galactodendron latex was submitted considered that the material could be used in the rubber industry as a substitute for pontianac.

词形变化

pontianacs plural pontianak alternative

词源

From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city in West Kalimantan, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.
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