amber

ˈæm.bəː

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#1·6h ago

(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

Origin: From , aumbre, from , ambre, from , from . Compare , ambergris. Displaced (from ), , , and . * The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber". Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·6h ago

A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

1579, The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes):

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#3·6h ago

A yellow-orange colour.

: As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which i…

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