amber
Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
Other meanings
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
A yellow-orange colour.
Synonyms
- gold
Related words
- amberfish
- amberiferous
- amberish
- amberlike
- amberous
- ambersnail
- amberware
- ambery
- ambrite
- Amber
- ambeer
- ambered
Word history
From Arabic "عَنْبَر" (ambergris).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “amber” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.