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Definition of Ceylon lac

Ceylon lac
, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance. Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers. Ceylon lac, a resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac. Lac dye, a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac. Lac lake, the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum. Mexican lac, an exudation of the tree Croton Draco.

Meaning of Ceylon lac from wikipedia

- Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Schleichera oleosa, kusum tree, Ceylon oak, lac tree, gum lac tree. It is a large deciduous (nearly evergreen) tree with a...
- tree (Schleichera oleosa). The plant, which is also commonly known as Ceylon oak, lac tree, or Mac****ar oiltree, belongs to the family Sapindaceae. The sapindaceae...
- (Tachardiinae) or lac insects (Homopt. Coccidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 16, 31–41. Green, E.E. (1922) The Coccidae of Ceylon, Part V. Dulau...
- residence in Ceylon he wrote and published The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon (1853) and two years later Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon (1855). These...
- In ****stani English, large values of rupees are counted in thousands; lac (hundred thousands); crore (ten-millions); arab (billion); kharab (hundred...
- AAP Aerovista Airlines AEROVISTA GROUP Kyrgyzstan defunct AE AE Air Ceylon CEYLON Sri Lanka defunct 4K* AAS Askari Aviation AL-**** ****stan AAU Australia...
- 4 years, 46 days)  South Africa (republic 31 May 1961; 9 years, 114 days)  Ceylon (republic, with the name Sri Lanka, 22 May 1972; 20 years, 106 days) The...
- culture have been found at certain sites northeast of Kralendijk and near Lac Bay. Caquetio rock paintings and petroglyphs have been preserved in caves...
- shut down following a small fire. It derailed twelve kilometres away in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, igniting the Bakken light crude oil from 44 DOT-111...
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 227 people on the ground. February 4 – LAC Colombia Flight 028, a cargo McDonnell Douglas DC-8 destined to São Paulo...