pontianac

Meaning

Noun

• A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata (species).

Related

Similar words

• dead Borneo, gutta jelutong, gambria, jelutong, bresk, fluvia

Origin

• From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city in West Kalimantan, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.