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copal

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copal
a hard aromatic resin, yellow, orange, or red in colour, obtained from various tropical trees and used in making varnishes and lacquers

copal [′kō·pəl]
(materials)
Hard, resinous substance exuded from certain trees in the East Indies, South America, and Africa and used in varnish and printing ink.


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Their ears, frightfully distended, held dangling to them disks of wood and plates of gum copal.
As he wanted something that could be carried openly in the hand, I proposed to make use of an old one- gallon copal varnish can I happened to have by me.
 
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