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单词 agarwood
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agarwood
The aromatic resin or (more fully agarwood) resinous heartwood of Aquilaria malaccensis or any of several other South-East Asian trees of the genera Aquilaria and Gyrinops (family Thymelaeaceae), used in perfumery, in cosmetics, and as incense. Also: any of the trees from which this resin or wood is obtained. Cf. eagle-wood n.This resin is not normally present in the tree, but is produced as a defence mechanism against fungal infection and other forms of damage.
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1813 W. Milburn Oriental Commerce II. xxi. 160 Fragrant woods, viz. white or yellow sandal-wood, ugger, or aloe-wood, and tuggur.
1828 W. Hamilton East-India Gazetteer (ed. 2) I. 378/2 The other articles are bird's-nests, sea slugs, shark fins, tortoise-shell, agar-wood, hides, &c. for the Chinese market.
1837 W. J. Hooker Icones Plantarum I. Tab. VI The oil is procured by bruising these portions in a mortar, and boiling them in water, when the Aggur rises to the surface.
1892 J. C. Sawer Odorographia xiii. 285 Some fraudulent dealers sell lumps of the Agar after the oil has been distilled from it.
1909 Central Provinces District Gazetteers Jubbulpore District iii. 108 The aromatic wood of the agar (Aquilaria agallocha).
1972 Bot. Rev. 38 368 It is possible that agarol, or another constituent of agarwood oil, may limit the spread of attacking fungi.
2009 Financial Times 5 Sept. 6/1 Due to the indiscriminate harvesting of Agarwood in the past, Aquilaria malaccensis, the primary source, is now protected as an endangered species.
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