Canarium

noun

Ca·​nar·​i·​um

-rēəm

: a large genus of tropical Asian and African trees (family Burseraceae) having compound leaves, panicled flowers, and triangular drupaceous often edible fruits and yielding balsamic resins see black dammar, elemi, java almond

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Malay kĕnari Java almond + New Latin -ium

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