Usually means: Yellow pigment from resin trees.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. gamboge: Merriam-Webster
  2. gamboge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gamboge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gamboge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gamboge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gamboge, gamboge: Wordnik
  7. gamboge: Wiktionary
  8. gamboge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gamboge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gamboge: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gamboge: Dictionary.com
  12. Gamboge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Gamboge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gamboge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. gamboge: Rhymezone
  16. Gamboge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gamboge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. gamboge: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gamboge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gamboge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Gamboge: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gamboge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gamboge: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gamboge: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gamboge: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gamboges as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gamboge)

noun:  One of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.
noun:  The resin of the gamboge tree; a preparation of the resin used as a pigment or for medicinal purposes.
noun:  A deep yellow colour.
adjective:  Of a deep yellow colour.

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