copal

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: co=pal

CIDE DICTIONARY

copal,  [Sp., fr. Mexican copalli, a generic name of resins. Clavigero.].

 A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, Trachylobium verrucosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.  Ure.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

copal, n. a resin from any of various tropical trees, used for varnish.

Etymology

Sp. f. Aztec copalli incense

ROGET THESAURUS

copal

Resin

N resin, rosin, gum, lac, sealing wax, amber, ambergris, bitumen, pitch, tar, asphalt, asphaltum, camphor, varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan, artificial resin, polymer, ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite, Dowex, Diaion, resiny, resinous, bituminous, pitchy, tarry, asphaltic, asphaltite.