Definitions for copal

copal co·pal

Spelling: [koh-puh l, -pal]
IPA: /ˈkoʊ pəl, -pæl/

Copal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in copal (aclop).

Definitions for copal

noun

  1. a hard, lustrous resin obtained from various tropical trees and used chiefly in making varnishes.

Origin of copal

1570-80; Mexican Spanish Nahuatl copalli

Examples for copal

This they smeared with a paint made by the admixture of camwood and copal gum.

It is principally employed in the preparation of copal varnish.

Their base is copal, a fossil, resinous substance of vegetable origin.

These bowls were used as censers, for some are still filled with copal.

Dr Seler concludes “that it denotes the copal or the offering of incense.”

copal, dissolved in methylated spirits, will prove the most satisfactory.

The pieces of copal recovered are in some cases as large as a human head.

Father Brandsma is devoting some of his energy to a change in copal gathering.

Use with oil on shellac and with oil or water on copal varnish.

The varnish should consist of copal in highly rectified spirit.

Word Value for copal
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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