noun

• Resin from any of a number of tropical trees, used to make varnish.

  The resin is obtained from trees in the families Leguminosae (genera Guibourtia, Copaifera, and Trachylobium) and Araucariaceae (genus Agathis)

  ‘In one culture a shaman uses tobacco, sage or cannabis, in others copal, frankincense, sandalwood, cedar, juniper or pine.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Her breath reeked of scalded sugar, copal, and agave.’
  • ‘The book begins by defining amber and differentiating it from copal or more recent and, as yet, undistilled resin.’
  • ‘If the resin has hardened in recent times, it is called copal.’
  • ‘This meant that forest economies, including the trade in wild rubber, copal, wax, ivory, and timber, were effectively circumscribed.’