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‖ calambac|ˈkæləmbæk|
Also 7 callamback, calembuc, 7–8 calamba, 8 -bo, 8–9 -beg, 9 -bao.
[Kalambak is given by Crawfurd and Forbes-Watson as Malay and Javanese: Col. Yule thinks ‘it perh. came with the article from Champa’ in Anam. The other forms are corruptions or adaptations in Portuguese and other European langs.: French has calambac, -bart, -bouc, -bou, bour.]
An eastern name of Aloes-wood or Eagle-wood, produced by Aquilaria Agallocha, Roxb. (See agalloch.)
(So all recent authorities on Indian Botany. Aloexylum, regarded as the source by earlier authors, is now given up.)
[1552Barros' Decades d'Asia I. ix. 1 (transl. Yule) Campa, in the mountains of which grows the genuine aloes-wood, which the Moors of those parts call Calambuc.] 1594Merry Knack in Hazl. Dodsley VI. 571 Then will I have..Calambac and Cassia. 1667H. Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 417 Where the best Calamba-wood, or Palo d'Aquila, grows. 1690Songs Costume (1849) 189 Calembuc combs in pulvil case. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Aloes, The calambo..is brought in small bits of a very fragrant scent. 1871E. Balfour Cycl. India, Calambac, Calambao, Calambeg, also called Aloes wood is the Agallochum of the ancients and the Agilla or Eaglewood of the moderns. It is produced in Siam and Silhet by Aquilaria Agallocha. 1885G. Watt Dict. Econ. Prod. India s.v., In the interior of old trees we found irregular masses of harder and darker coloured wood, which constitutes the famous Eagle⁓wood..called..also Calambac, Agallochum, Aloe or Aloes Wood. |