Definitions for gamboge

gamboge gam·boge

Spelling: [gam-bohj, -boozh]
IPA: /gæmˈboʊdʒ, -ˈbuʒ/

Gamboge is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in gamboge (abeggmo).

Definitions for gamboge

noun

  1. Also, cambogia. a gum resin from various Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, especially G. hanburyi, used as a yellow pigment and as a cathartic.
  2. yellow or yellow-orange.

Origin of gamboge

1625-35; New Latin gambog- (stem of gambogium), variant of cambog-, after Cambodia

Examples for gamboge

The coat of gamboge is lastly to be applied in the same way.

Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial.

Oh, I'm just gamboge, and the missus, she's bright vermilion.

The sun which had neared the horizon was dying in throes of crimson and gamboge.

I found it next to “gamboge,” and I can now tell you all about it.

Tincture of gamboge, turmeric, or saffron; or wax coloured with annotta.

If the seeds are seen lay on gamboge, shaded with gall-stone.

gamboge is of a gum-resinous nature and clear yellow colour.

Buildings are sometimes tinted with a mixture of lake and gamboge.

A mixture of gamboge, 10 gr., with carbonate of potassa, 20 gr.

Word Value for gamboge
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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