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name
An older spelling of Pontianak city in West Kalimantan (Indonesia).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city in West Kalimantan, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.
